well, the event before saucer, the shadow tower one, was somewhat similar to this, altho not so extreme. people could still carry you through it if you had enough power ranking, but this one? come on, its only access the world and go from point a to point b, its not like its telling you to kill stuff THERE or anything.
not to mention the lack of clarity in the quest description or item portal pointing out explicitly that you required x amount of power ranking to even access the world probably made a lot of people just waste their portals for nothing.
was thinking to myself that it would have been a better implementation to this part to just add the portal itself with the required information to the Atlas rather than forcing through an item, but im like 'whatever' at this point if they dont change it later.