Why bother with pets? let alone a grand pet pack.

I am just curious why we should bother with pets at all let alone buy the new pack for the 1 pet drop. I myself got 1 or 2 pets I liked but what reason is there to go farther than that and actually collect them? I know most cartel stuff is pure vanity but I find myself collecting things like armor,weapons, and color crystals to give to my characters and their companions for rpgs reason. I never bring my pet out and don't really see people with their pets out on the fleet ether. It just seems to me like pets would have to perform some function outside of pure vanity to even make them worth getting. I was wondering if anyone else felt the same way.

why not a mount pack instead. as that is where the creds are.

I have more pets then i care to admit and I love collecting them.

I know many people who are in the same boat.

Them doing it makes sense to me.

I have also many many pets (and with upcoming stronghold I might build own to show of my status as pet lady). But since I have so many already, I wouldn't buy pet packs, but rather buy the pets from the GTN which I might have missed (it is maybe the most often category on the GTN that I check to see if there is anything I need). Worse, with the special pets that were only available for american retail stores, I am not that eager any more to get every pet, since that is no longer possible. BioWare just doesn't know how to treat collectors.

Slight tangent, but in my opinion the big problem with pets is that they don't stay summoned. I haven't tested it recently but I remember every time I would zone or die I would have to resummon the pet manually. It should be like sprint or any of the stances/charges, once you click it it's always on.

It's one thing I noticed very quickly while playing ESO was that my pets never desummoned. Except for a couple issues right at launch they never went away no matter how many times I died, zoned, or logged in/out.

Its something to collect. As to the pack...that does seem kind of silly to me. I would think three random pets would have made more sense.

It once was that way, I think it got changed when BioWare removed pets from Warzones, that made them despawn basically with every instance change.

I have no idea what the pets are for. I have two handed down to me by Bio and I would trade them both for one decent companion customization for Doc. If I could.

Vanity items...
Just like all the mounts, Companion Customization, Mounts, and all the other things added to the CM.

They sere little or no real purpose.
But people want it and I see plenty of people with pets.

They are also doing a series of these things (we already had an armor and an emote one) so pets makes sense.

I have absolutely no interest in pets in MMO's.

That said, I know and understand why people like them and even collect them.

So why bother with them you say?
The answer is simple; Because not everyone likes what you like.