FT8 is great for making a few contacts or grabbing those hard to hit stations. I do think there is a self perpetuating fear of missing contacts that to some degree causes operators to stay on FT8 lon
As a counterpoint, the fear of missing a station prevails on any mode. One draw with FT-x is you know where to look and that "channel" is QRM tolerant compared to a hand full of big guns on SSB calli
Every contest for the last three years I've heard the same gripes from pretty much the same folks about the awful, contest-killing effect of FT-8 on contesting. It's getting a bit old and frankly has