You told you want to bring back pursuit like game mode with a lot more stuff to do as side quests? I really like that idea but may I ask, if you will keep a level up system won’t that cause us to spend more time in loading screen still? The reason why Hunting Grounds were introduced was to make it so you cab spend more time playing then loading screens, how do you plan to deal with this?
Couple ways that can happen -- hunt times in general should increase across the board. Behemoths will take a bit longer to defeat. It may make sense to have both kinds of modes. Pursuits have a lot of benefits that we lost when we removed them -- but they did have the benefit of less loading screen times.