HT: It just so happens that for the Notorious Monsters you've mentioned here, we would like to keep these monsters spawning in the field (as opposed to relegating them to an instanced battle) with the possibilty of them being taken by other parties that the first alliance has somehow lost the attack-lock. If NM pops become all instanced in the field, I think you'd lose one of those feelings of playing an MMO, and that is why there are constantly people around you and that's unfortunate, so
please keep your auto-lock on.