The changes in marni realms have saved many people from toxic pvp/dfs people. It's definitely a change for the better.

There are still a lot of social aspects to this game. You just have to look at other parts of the game, not just grind. Also there are still a lot of people grinding not in the marni zones, just go to the gyfin underground for example, most rotations are always occupied by someone.

Although would be nice to get more group spots in BDO.

I think it's more of a technical problem. PA had already to buy more servers to enlarge Marni's time.

Having everybody accumulating hours to use them all in a row, all in the same time (the larger community playing around the same hours) will cause a saturation for just a few hours a day but with no utility for those servers during the rest of the time.

And I don't think PA is willing to buy more servers right now. Or at least they wait to see the way players are grinding, see if it's technicaly manageable.