I hope the Arkadia Team has used the holiday time to think how to revive the broken Treasure Hunting and the dead Instances. If your key Unique Selling Points keep being the miserable failures (sad but true) as they are today, Arkadia is just another planet with no distinguishing reason to travel to.
I have to disagree with you there. I appreciate the events, special loots, treasure hunting system, SOOTOs, and the instances, not to mention the constant improvements to the planet. The A-team put a lot of work into TH and instances and I think they're a great addition to the planet. If you don't like them, just move on to other parts of the game that you do like and leave them to the people who enjoy them. Happy holidays to the A-team... hope you're all taking a well-deserved break!