Hm ... can't see the cynical joke here. I was hunting tonight right there and counted 5 other players beside me. Yes, i have three different kind of wool, animal muscle oil, thyroid oil, some piron-plr-22 on me (like allways every night) and for sure a little bit of crap.
But yes, you can find wool and other daily stuff with MU somewhere else on ark or cyrene .. maybe on RT. ... Let's say on nearly every place outside of caly.
In my opinion nowadays there are two options for a hunter:
1.) Stay on caly and hunt for shrap/mun ... hoping for a nice UL-item or mushrooms; hunting low-lvl or do robots
2.) Hunt everywhere else for the daily-mu and sell it on caly.
And for sure there are different possibilities what you can do as an investor:
1.) Buy land and run nice events for grinding hunters (like LT and hawkwing on ARK or Akoz on Caly) with a benefit to the community.
2.) Buy CLD's ... AUD's or play a bit AH-trader whit no benefit to the community.
When you ask me, i prefer the way LT, Hawkwing and Akoz are doing ... and i don't have a problem, when they do a little bit of over-advertising.