I just think that if you missed the event, you can blame yourself and not the staff or other players...
There were plenty of time to enter the Hit room, I am sure that you have friends that could do the favor for you and add hit while you couldn't be active. There were times that the HIT EVENT room was completely EMPTY (ask Mio or Cyane), so it is weird that "I was forced to be doing something else during the hours that it was on".
What I agree is that yeah, we need more people with Moderator rights and probably from different timezones, so they can conver the whole 2 days attending people that can't be active during a certain period.
When I was younger on server, I used to complain about many things, now I have 2 years of PSO and I am surprised that you, with 5 years of Ultima, still can't fully understand how this server works. The moderators does these Events because THEY WANT TO, not because THEY ARE OBLIGATED TO. So all that me and the people that participated from the Event can say is Thank You. As Cyane said in private, only Mio could help her doing that Event, the other moderators probably were busy.
Can you imagine how it is to make 6~7 weapons from each user, attend like 150 people per day or more? They feel tired, so yeah do not underestimate the work from them.
On my opinion this event was MUCH, MUCH better than previous years, where we had exactly 1 hour to attend the whole server, and we couldn't split Hit betwee weapons. Maybe you can't see, but we had a really improvement on Events and server lately. I understand that event as a BONUS, not as a thing that should happen often.