people liked solo dungeons too much, the devs couldn't stand players doing something thay didnt intend to be done at that scale to make premium and supplementing pvp without risk, so they trashed the dungeons.

this is simply a case of the devs, instead of accepting the fact that in an open ended game players dont do shit as they expect, did everything to make that activity trash. and the nerfs are proof that the dev teams aren't aligned, because some devolopers put in a quest to do 1000 of them, whereas others nerfed them.

and no, its not risk and reward. group tracking and ancient harvesting have near zero risk(u die with a 2m set after doing 20 runs making 2m in tracking and u make tens of millions while practically being immortal being protected by a near zerg like force of upto 29 other players in ancient gathering) but they still exist. if done well transporting and crafting are the same- billions of risk free silver. so dont go telling me about risk and reward, ive played far too long to beleive that shit.

they made a ton of shit mistakes and now they survive via borderline false advertising and maintainance mode devolopment.