Entertaining read <3

The problem for you is that this is what will happen. If you want to play this game then you need it to succeed. In order for it to succeed, it needs to be profitable. In order for it to be profitable, it needs subscribers. In order for it to have subscribers, people like the OP need to have the features that they want. In other words, you need need the game to have the features that the OP wants. Or, you can tell him (and everybody else who is asking for the same features) to go back to WoW...which is what you will have to do once they are all gone.

These things turned WoW into a financial and social behemoth. If it killed WoW, then you wouldn't be using WoW as the benchmark in your post

You did not overreact at all...

Dude, the OP's point is that the UI is horse****, which it is. Every bad thing has a workaround, but that doesn't make that thing any less bad.

Pre-BC, druids and paladins weren't viable as end game tanks, nor were they intended to be. I know that's not the point of this thread, but I thought I'd throw it out there.

It's a waste only if you would have spent them on something else...which you wouldn't have.

93% of people list Huttball as their favorite warzone. I don't know where you're getting your erroneous information.

The problem with this is that WoW is out there. You can say what you want about all of the things that you dislike about it, but it has a ton of "quality of life" enhancements (pretty much everything the OP listed falls into that category) that you don't miss until you're gone. SWTOR has great potential, but it doesn't exist in a vacuum. People won't be patient enough to let SWTOR develop over time when they can return to WoW and not suffer the quality of life annoyances. If those things aren't in there by the end of the free month (particularly a direct copy of the dungeon finder tool) then people will bail back to WoW. I say this not because I want it to happen (the best thing for the MMO world would be to have a second successful MMO out there), but to point out what needs to be done to prevent it from happening.

Use of "he/she" may give you a politically correct warm fuzzy, but it's distracting as heck if you're actually trying to communicate something with your writing. You might have had a good point in here somewhere, but who can tell?

Yes! It's not 2005 anymore, and a "Flashpoint Finder" tool would be nice. Saying that it ruins communities is ridiculous, of course. People who won't talk to each other when an LFD tool is released won't talk to each other now, so nothing is lost. In any case, here's the deal: Bioware is going to release a version of WoW's LFD tool at some point (because people want it and it's useful); you know it, and I know it, and all of the crying in the world isn't going to stop it. So let's just put it out now and be done with it. People won't leave over the addition of the LFD tool (no, you won't), but people might leave over the absence of it. And when I say "leave," I don't mean that they'll quit in a fit of anger; I mean that they'll simply just return to the games that are more polished and complete. To all of you people who are saying "good riddance": I'm sorry, but you need those people; your own subscription is not enough to keep the game in business. There is no patience out there to allow a new game time to develop. There is no patience, because there is no NEED for patience; there is already a game out there that has all of these tools that are now perceived to be "basic." WoW is like your spouse of 25 years: you're not blown away by them anymore, but you are comfortable with them. You may have an affair once in a while, but how many people actually make it 25 years with their spouse, and then dump them for someone new? Not many. Everybody gets one month of free play time, so Bioware has exactly one month to convince people to give up the game that they know, the characters that they have had for years, the friends that they have made, etc. and persuade them to move to SWTOR. And yes, so sorry, a Looking For Flashpoint tool is a requirement for that. So are UI-customizing mods, but that's a subject for a different thread.