Do you think FD pulling would have been a thing?

[sammoHung]

Yes, because of ToV and other zones where Enc cannot pacify / mez, etc.

Although - there are other tactics like dirty/clean tagging with TL's to bind for the dirty tag. But that would require having your pullers bound outside of ToV - which unless you were a caster, probably wasn't a thing in raid guilds in 2001.