I'm not willing to spend 200k gil for a couple levels and I'm sure others will agree or don't have the money. They're not ruining xp parties. Most likely they're removing players from the xp parties who you probably wouldn't want to party with anyways.
dunes is dead, Qufim is ok iirc, People will go to a jungle pt if you make it (I love jungle pt's), then it's pretty much sync till 37 and Eronf lol. After that keep syncing or maybe CN. till lessers
I actually miss partying in GC and CN etc. Even if it's not as good exp as Eronf and MMM. I think i've had like 1 GC PT in a year.. I get so tired of partying qufim I just FoV solo..