Management changes shouldn't effect what players have been promised by the Bioware. It would be different if this game had gotten all merged into another studio but it hasn't yet. Therefore the concerns addressed are valid. When my company merged for example, I actually had to get more things that ere promised to customer finished on time so new mamagement could make more assurances that we were not just going to take our IP and run.
This much I agree on, Cathar were a terrible race to pick first and once they launch them it bombs it will be all the proof EA needs say they never want to update species available again. Togruta or Wookies would have been far better choices.