Maybe it's better making a few clarifications.
A "hub" is a place where people converge to go elsewhere. Atlanta Airport is a "hub", because it's conveniently in the middle of US. Other airports are made to be hubs even if they arent physically in the middle because policies, but that's what hubs are. Places where people go to go elsewhere. And due to the high traffic, they end up attracting services, and people linger.
The outskirts are a natural hub because of the morninglordian temple&crypts, lady's rest, and sits smack in the middle to paths going west, northwest, north, south and east.
Another hub, which is a natural hub, is Mist camp. It is literally a hub. You call it bus stop, but it's a hub. It has been designed to be THE Hub for the whole server. It used to be people aligned along the pathway waiting for someone to say "perf?" or creating impromptu duels because of boredom, but as it is now there's people more bent to roleplay, and it is a RP hub. I regularly roleplay there with a number variable between 5 and 10 people at all times whenever i log in, and the experience is probably linked to time zones but this is my experience. The experience is totally comparable to the outskirts. Sometimes I/we leave the place to go RP somewhere else, or we go dungeoneering somewhere else, exactly like in the outskirts. All it takes is for a character to craft a few benches and we recreate the lady's rest beer garden in the middle of the mists. I do not need to trek to vallaki in order to shed all the blind drive with some minor RPXP, i can do the same in MC at full RPXP, if I am seeking a mechanical advantage. if I go to vallaki is because I look for specific people to RP with.
Tser pool is not a hub. VOB is not a hub. Muhar is not a hub. Those are terminus, places you go to, and then come back from. If you are stuck in tser pool, that doesnt make it a hub, but a weird bus stop (yes, in this case) where you are stuck at for unforeseen reasons. And maybe it's me, but i never met more than two other people in Tser waiting for the morning to come. Thats because it's more logical waiting in -right!- the hub which is MC before taking the carriage to Tser.
I see no reason to wait in Tser and Rp there. it's an awkward place where everyone is looking nervously at their lower right corner to see how many more minutes they are to wait to get to seven oclock. Ive yet to meet people with an RP attitude "Oh what a fortuitous event! since we are all stuck here why dont we go somewhere nearby and smash things?" People dont leave MC to go raiding west barovia caves, and people that come from vallaki need to plan well ahead, they cant impromptu the Well just because they are bored.
Again, i dont like this change. it isnt working as intended, for what is my experience.