We don't want it, we're vocal about not wanting it. What logic is there in cxp?

Show me numbers to prove what you are saying. You can't? To bad. I still enjoy the game and many people I know do the same. There is no need for those to post in forums or even read this bickering and hatestuff certain people spam here.
And the action of the studio? If I would work at BW I would say "shut up idiots", but they probably won't. So they decided to give you a finger with tokens and people want to rip off the whole arm. Some are never happy, complaining just to complain. Even not released games are dead, if devs don't accept their only viable opinion. Things never change.

Stay strong BW, youre game is awesome.

What active player data? The amount of players in game is down based on the numbers of instances and number of players in those instances. The Google trends method that has a logical, data-driven methodology shows the game in its lowest point to date. And BioWare itself is making drastic changes to the game at a high frequency, that is the behavior of a business scrambling to stop a problem, not of a game that's stable or growing its population.

To claim that the servers are at their lowest point to date is incorrect. To say that we never got the large surge with the release of 5.0 that we got with the release of 4.0 would however be a correct observation.

The relative loading tracker at torstatus (use the mirror site now) shows the active concurrent player levels for a given server, over time. That is the clearest objective measure of how a server is performing, compared to itself, over time. It does not give absolute numbers, nor does it have to.. because it is a relative measure for that server.

Using http://mirror.torstatus.net, the active servers in NA (ie: ignore the three dead ones) are up and have remained up in active population since 5.0 dropped. [The only one we cannot get a clear view of that is still active is Begeren Colony as it has hovered at/below 1.0 for some time, but did move up to 1.05 in December, so set that one aside]. That said... the servers are showing signs of starting to taper off after 5.0 now, which is to be expected as the same relative tapering off happens every year about 3-4 months after an expac drops.

Note: You cannot compare one server to another with torstatus because many of them are configured for different full population loads. For example, Harbinger is known to be the largest server configuration in the North America servers, as they have increased it's capacity a couple of times over the years, most recently a few weeks after 4.0 went live and the server was struggling with loading issues.

It seems you actually never played any RPG outside of this one. SW:ToR is way to easy to gear up. If you ever played a REAL MMORPG you would find droprates like ~5% for really good gear from a harder boss respawning every 6 to 8 hours. You would find out you need to farm way more of the same enemy than the guy getting Rank 100 in the first 3 days only to get an important drop with a 0,01% chance. Oh and did I mention that - in REAL MMORPGs - your gear can actually BREAK while enhancing it? POOF gone. Start again from zero. Most of those games even sell stuff to make all this chances slightly better.

Try it. You'll crawl back into SW:ToR because you never have seen a real grind with real RNG.

Bioware devs are under the impression they can do no wrong. The system simply needs some tweaks.

It's a classic mistake done by many devs teams in the past. It turns out listening to the people paying you're salary works out better in the end.