People are more likely to play a 1k GTD than a $200 GTD, doesn't mean they love 3-5hr LR, it means they like higher prize pools. Smaller tourneys are obviously going to get less traffic with the illusion that they are somehow better value.
Not many of the higher GTD's are 2hr LR, so of course they will have less traffic. I don't really care to play many higher GTD/LR unless i'm going to play all day. I'm not asking for GTD, i'm fine with smaller fields, I just don't agree with the reasoning.
Maybe people don't like playing smaller tourneys with long blind levels.
I have nothing to back this up other than an observation but the traffic does look lower for MTT's. You would think being winter the traffic would be higher.
I just spent 6 hours winning a small $2 re-buy because the blinds are way too long from bubble to 1st. We spent over a hour on the bubble. One of the reason people don't play smaller tourney's. I have no trouble winning them, but given the long FT blinds(well over a hour) it's hard to justify playing it. It's not because the GTD is lower, not because it has 2 or 5hr LR. It's because for the money/prizepool the blinds do not scale well.
On other side of the coin, some turbos having no more than a 10-12bb avg once the FT hits, making those a donkey fest. I mean saying it's just people complaining is disregarding the issues they preset. If you speed up or slow down blinds jumps depending on the tourney, you make the games flow well. You can't just say one size fits all. I dunno how you can say they last under 6 hours, unless it's turbo's not many do.
The key is making all kinds of tourneys. Plenty of tourney's i don't like, i don't play them, but that doesn't mean someone else doesn't. But making very little freezeouts, short LR other than turbo's is annoying. They have made more but the vast majority is still a push to play ALL day long. That's just not something everyone wants to do. Again, just because someone plays a 5hr LR doesn't mean they like it.
Saying there is plenty to play on WPN, depends on your buy-in level and types of games you play. Plenty to play in the $20+