but why should people care if its instanced or not?
In most of the newwer mmogs it seems that you just get a small group and go level grind, ignoring all other people, except when in a city.
thats my opinion anyways, from watching friends play them.
No, while most mmorpgs coming out have instanced content theres a equal amount of non instanced if not a majority. Also in most mmorpgs people spend alot of time in outdoor areas hunting, not just dungeon crawls(in fact for a long time most people hunted outdoors rather then in dungeons in everquest).