Once you get all of your followers to level 100, you get stuck with 4-10 hour missions, and no longer the the short missions. This will be nice in a few weeks when I don't want to have to update my followers too often, but right now I'm trying to crate farm for upgrades, so I had to deactivate one of my 100's and activate a 97 just to get some quick missions. The assignment rate for these level 100 missions is also really slow, compared to how fast the faster missions are given.
This is counter intuitive, that it's better to have low level followers sitting in your active list to farm the most crates.