Indeed it's an MMO game.
But wasting 15 hours on nothing. That isn't an MMO game I consider a good game.
If people actually did the WQ, instead of a small handful of people, at least we who did the hard work would get rewarded.
But they consider the prize as too low value compared to a special outbreak, and those who submit less than 1% just gives up because they gain nothing.
And those who ditched the WQ for the Outbreak could still have done the WQ with a lot of time left to hunt the special outbreak Pawniard.
And on top of all that, the set percentages are quite high in regards to the rewards.
If I was to adjust it accordingly, I'd decide on a random prize pool with a variety of high valued items.
Such as PvE items, PvP items, Shiny Pokemon, Alolan Pokemon, Event sprite Pokemon, 1 CC, MS, etc for every 0,5 percentage (or 1 percentage) of contribution after 1%.
And if the Mystery ticket is such a high valued item, then have it on 2% contribution, and another at 4 or 6%.
But that's just my humble opinion on the subject.
And for those who use repel trick on pokes. Just drop the overall spawn level of the WQ Pokemon in those spawn areas to be below the lowest.