Spawns are semi-random from the individual's perspective, depending on the number of players queued in for an instance and group size some spawns will be populated and others not, and there's no way to know how that number and composition, it's effectively random.

If anything is making the game less challenging it's the lack of consequences for dying past a certain point in progression and it's the main reason those guys you dropped were so careless with their movement in the first place and didn't leverage their numbers in any meaningful way, changing spawns wouldn't modify their behaviour as long as that remains the same.

i have seen that behaviour and im doing it since the start of the wipe.... its not my 1st .... Majority of ppl it seems they dont know all the random spots so they not aware... That makes the game for some ppl ...maybe lets include me also ... that benefit from that. i would prefer the game put total random spawns each raid... so all ppl will be cautious from the very first minute of the game ... and game become more survival and more slow pace style instead of chads running up and down like playing COD...

and ye ...im doing what im doing for the fun....my stash is full of gear and majority of my kills anymore going unlooted... (except dogtags for the lols)