U can't make mist new player friendly village, u can try as a member of village take care of them. However, except of primal raids on foxes, grinding is not bad.
Lack of content is everywhere. Mist need ,like in every village, few initiators who can motivate and gather people to be active.
Fishing profession, that looks like a heaven for macro bots.
I think questline in mist port would be nice with some decent amount of exp for players after Toad arc.