Are ops/raids outdated?

So I take it you've never heard of Tactical Mode flashpoints and Story Mode operations?

Experiences vary. Don't let a few bad experiences ruin the entire raiding aspect of this game for you. I was in an absolutely amazing raid group for over a year. We found each other right here on the forums. It was a mix of three or four small guilds. The entire group had a really awesome dynamic, everyone got along and there was no drama. The only reason I am not still raiding with them is I simply do not have the time.

tl;dr: There are still a lot of really great people out there that are probably in the same boat you are in. You just need to find each other.

If you take a look at the FP, OPS, Heroic section of the forums, you can see that some guilds/raidgroups are progressing to NiM content. Guilds/raidgroups that didn't do them before 4.0 on the intended difficulty level. Why is this important? There is 'new blood'. You claim that the veteran/elite raiders left, maybe, however new ones are stepping up. Not that magnitude but they are stepping up. And it is a good thing.

Btw, how do you know that NiM in it's current format is not fun? Personally I think NiM has a certain appeal and can form a single group of people to high end raiders. Bringing others closer and build a group dynamic still holds a value despite KoTFE's every effort. That couldn't be bad.

Join a guild that is doing ops and you just have to sign up for operations easy as that) no need to find people,the raid leaders will do the teams and for the boring part of the operations this happens in almost every MMO,they can't realy release a new operation every month and tbh operations have become way more easyer then they used to be,i remember when HM/NIM ops where challenging

Before 3.0 more more people were doing it. What do you mean intended level? It was designed for a certain elite group of people. When these intended group had left or moved on, why shouldn't they switch difficulty rather than let it die?

"New Blood"?

1) Few people come to SWTOR for raid challenge now due to ops is no longer a focus. Are there more raiders than the 2.0 3.0 cycle? Overall, the raiders' number is dwindling and will keep on since there is no new ops.

2) Even for those few raiders, these "New Blood" are going to move on or give up on raid due to no new content someday. Right now they are doing it because there is no new challenging content. Fewer and fewer people would be interested of ops due to no new content.

I think NIM is fun for high end raiders, but it would not be fun anymore after it's been run over for 2-3 years. Nobody is going to stay on the same PVE content forever. It's time to move on, simple.

It's not for YOU to decide what is or is not fun for OTHER people.

Then why did the raiders ask for new content and leave? Shouldn't they enjoy their fun on the same old NIM?

So we agree that we need more new operations! Goode.

Yeah, and when new ones have come out, the few raiders left or returned raiders will switch to these content rather than the old ones.

THIS, is why a content shouldn't always stay on its difficulty because people will switch their focus.

What I see nowadays is that new people doing these old raids. For what reason is each of there own. But they doing it. You know I have all NiM achievements for EC. But it was a level 50 OP and I was level 60. Overleveled, overgeared, caried through. But this doesn't mean I wont do it again. Slowly but I'm getting there with my crew. And some day we will do it, even if there would be new raids at that time. You can say that this is just me, but you cannot say that we will be the only ones doing that.
With the operations scaling there are means to go back and do them again. Need an example? Here you go: watch this.