Yea that definitely sucks it happened to you consistently. Though your post did just remind me that Thorawyn either had internet problems or IRL issues. Maybe kids? I remember Yanni and I would start preparing for something (usually securing a place near Galadon to protect Thorawyn or raiding X cabal, and then Thorawyn would just go AFK and void out on us for periods of time.
I do agree with you to an extent about what you said. If he knows he's going to void out, if I were him I probably wouldn't summon someone's zombies, since as you said, nothing gained from it and he's not even there to perhaps use it to his advantage. But if it's his shitty internet that he can't fix or he thinks he's going to be fine and then is forced to void unexpectedly, eh. Hard to say. I can't recall any sort of ratio, but some times he did say he had to leave for a bit, and other times he would just AFK and void out during strategy talking or prepping.