I hit 3K Gold Emblems on my main, and I realized they changed the hosting system.
In the first raid, when you hosted, you went to the back of the line and waited until you were given priority with the people with getherwings. However, if a person hosted a game and then asked for the lobby to be remade, they would jump ahead of you in the line, potentially because the other people would stay and they wanted to make sure all those people got into another game as fast as possible. Coupled with the fact that EX could be done infinitely if you joined with wings instead of hosted, you NEEDED to host to proc EX, and the bonus hosting loot, the host queue time could easily take over 5 minutes before you were given priority.
The second raid changed it so people joining could also proc EX, EX itself was free but always disappeared, EX now rewards over 100 Gold Emblems, and EX now happened much more frequently. It's difficult to say whether or not the host line queue system was changed because the double recovery time event, doubling the getherwing limit, and hundreds of Blessed ashes were given out at this time, so there were much more people searching for games than hosting them. Hosting times were near instant while searching took forever everywhere outside of Expert raids.
For this raid, EX is rarer, and the host lobby queue system seems to not prioritize anyone. You still join the back of the line when starting a room, but people who finish hosting a game and remake the lobby now also just join the back of the line instead of given priority and jumping ahead of the new rooms. Combined with rarer EX spawns so more people are dedicating their time to doing EX, it takes no more than 2 minutes for people to join a hosted room. This also means that people remaking lobbies will most likely start from square one again because if not everyone decides to play with the same people again, the other joiners will have to wait 1-2 minutes while they could instantly get into another game by leaving and re-queuing.
It's up to debate about EX spawn rate, but I do think the host priority system change was for the better. It means no one is waiting THAT long for a game to start compared to the first raid at the cost of re-makers having instant queues. I also feel like EX spawn rate might be too low, but the fact that I still finished the important Gold Emblems rewards in a couple days means I would have reached that point MUCH sooner of the EX rate was the same. I feel like they outta revert the EX spawn rate, but also decrease the amount of Gold Emblem rewards it gives you, because I feel 100 is kinda ridiculous. It means you can finish getting all the important Gold Emblem rewards by doing the highest tier content less than 30 times.