The only cc I use in LI and Kaon is sapping a mob to skip the whole pack, aside from the one tightly packed room in Kaon, I'll cc the screamer in the first pull, and a medic at the end of LI.
You sure can keep threat on everything, and if your group is halfway decent you don't need cc. If the healer is not asleep you don't even need to stop pulling.
You haven't indicated an issue here, just made a vague and invalid comparison. Also in any scenario someone not clicking ready will add time to your wait.
You're good, just make sure you read up on the fights. The dps requirement is probably the only real limiting factor for this FP, I've had a few pugs who can follow the mechanics but just couldnt put out enough damage to beat enrages.
Goldshire wasn't anything special by design, it became what it is from the community. Any place has that potential, and TOR has some way better settings for such activity. People forget that it takes some player initiative to create some of this fluff, and things like that don't ship at release or come overnight or in a patch.
+1 for west/east, in voidstar the game refers to the doors as such, same with the points in novare coast. I think civil war has actual names for them, so you could use those if you were so inclined, but nobody would know what you were referring to.
Personally I have taken an approach to just play to have fun, without focusing too much on gearing up. The gear will come regardless, but if you don't think about it too much it feels less like a grind.