I did not see the change in patch-notes, but I have noticed you lowered the amount of players on a single map to some weird numbers. (most noticeable in Well of the dragons and Vallenhas - due to the BHE... where it altered the difficulty of those BHE and difficulty of getting on the right map)
I would like to suggest to couple this change with another: Remove the restriction of intentional travelling to a semi-full map.
Right now there are three stages on the map: one you can freely go to, one you can go only if there is already one party member present, and finally - totally full, you cannot get there by any means.
I would change it to the following 3 stages:
1) Fully accessible, system puts there incoming people
2) Accessible only intentionally (even without "invite"!), but the system will not put there a random incoming person
3) Full map, cannot get there by any means
And while you are touching the issue, it would be nice (- if the problem is still present, I have not checked -) that the system will always put party members to the same instance - not only in cases when the leader entered first. Having party split to more instances while leaving Master Expedition is annoying.
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The whole game is becoming more and more like a matchmaking server, with several lobbies, with banks and mail boxes, the newest lobby is Avernus. That is my theory anyways.
There are BHEs recommending 10+ participants. You usually cannot reach such number without going past the first stage limit. And with lowering the total amount of players on the map it gets even harder. All I am suggesting is skip that silly mandatory 10 sec party building. Being in a party should be a little bit more sacred.
I doubt people will start jumping to full instances without any reason. And there is the second - hard - stop anyway.
This is just making things a little bit more friendly. And it should not cause any more strain on the servers.
Remember, shorter the instance switching timer has two edges. It allows you to go there faster. It also allows everyone to go there faster to fill it up. I am not against that idea though.