Taking the profit from grinding.
With the June Content Patch on May 30th, we received a huge nerf of the EXP and GP rates in Nemexis HQ. Many people state this was a action Nexon should have done quite a time ago, and I believe the way has still to be gone and this was just the first step. In the same patch, several game modes received a pretty buff in their rewards, including Desert Thunder. Therefore, we could see the phenomenon that the mode which rewards best in relatively short amount of time, receives a "huge" playerbase. The same phenomenon occured when Quarantine received its buff during the Restore update, or when Nemexis HQ was introduced.
The overproportional EXP-Rewards in Desert Thunder, more precisely Desert Thunder (Normal) leads to the well known grinding of…