The reason is because WoW had automatic queueing for battlegrounds in Vanilla, therefore people have only experienced battlegrounds with queues, and they must therefore be required for battlegrounds to exist.

 

Automatic queueing for dungeons did not exist until years later, when WoW was reaching its peak subscribership, therefore they are not part of the old school nostalgia and must not be necessary.

 

This all makes complete sense to apply an outdated design based on nostalgia from a completely different game to SW:TOR. It really does. I'm not being facetious. It's the only logical design choice.

Another thing to think about is: if we have pretty bad situation with forming a 4man group .... what will happen when you need to run those promised 8 or 16 ppl raild? Scary.

It would be easier to get a Flashpoint group, if you had at least some Server wide LFG channel. Or maybe several, like [LFG - Esseles] [LFG - Mandalorian Raiders] and stuff like that.

 

Nothing as boring as standing in the fleet and spamming your LFG messages hoping that someone might be there too at that time.

 

It does not have to be a LFG Tool, but at least a way to reach all the people who are interested in forming a group on the server and not just the ones in your zone.