If those DvL tokens come from everywhere then yea. But not like they are earned now. But they could just make a GC tokens that come from every 5 box or so. Then you can turn those in to gear.
Or make it lake those reputation grinds. Get it to certain rank and you can buy gear from vendor. But the way I see this is that no matter what kind of grind they set up for this, they still will lose veteran players. We have been doing same stuff for 2 years now waiting for new Ops/FP's/etc. Few 15-20 minute uprising don't hold that much.