The problem is it doesn’t have a rare chance to spawn in Dire Maul anymore and 1.12 AV removed Black Lotus and Thorium veins from the bg which also used to supply alot of the servers lotus.
(AV used to last 4+ hours with an hourly Black Lotus spawn.)
Overpopulation isn’t the real problem here, the problem is we only have world spawns, which are controlled by cartels and multi boxers, when there used to be other avenues of acquiring lotus that no longer exist in 1.12.
Oh btw, here is a video showing how fun AV lotus farming used to be for PvPrs.