Some hot drops are totally viable. Reverse psychology works at times in this game.
Especially if the highlighted gear zone is somewhere else. Like last night our ship started above run off but the highlighted zone was marketplace. I didn't jump initially but I noticed that no one else jumped lol so we quickly jumped and had runoff and the pit all to ourselves.
Then that wouldn't be a hot drop. A hot drop is dropping and committing to any spot where there are multiple teams also dropping. It's not about which spot it is on the map. It's about how contested the drop is. That's what makes it "hot."