Too many abilities?

I think this is misleading to, the talent trees in SWTOR are pretty dull. My scoundrel's choices are mind blowingly boring, my jedi guardians look like an old wow warrior prot tree (hell the top talents basically devastate!). It feels like they've copied a load of old games systems (and content in this case) and not kept up with improvements to such. MoP looks pretty bad but the talent update looks like a fantastic benefit for people who actually want talent points to mean something.

More in line with the OP I don't think there are too many abilities per-say but the UI just doesn't handle it well. It's such a shame it didn't launch with rift level customisation. It's nice to be able to do a lot of things, if those things are meaningful and if you have a UI to support it.

Warrior/Knights are probably the worst as they have skills with CDs and weak copies with no CD.
I have a BH which is better as they have a bunch of skills with either damage so low they are not worth a gcd or heat so high its not worth using which I can leave off my bars.

Give us more hot bars.

Many abilities? More like too few, and too little space on your quickslots.

I think the amount of abilities are fine. I would however like more center bars/slots. Hopefully these are added in the UI improvements to come.

EXACT same here. The more players know their class, the more they need complicated rotations to keep the boredom away.

It was the main reason why I left from WoW, mechanics becoming too streamlined.
When you repeat the same rotation 100 times a day, you'd better have it very varied.
The problem in Swtor is not the number of spells, it's the number of different combat mechanics per class.

You get given 6 skills from the talent tree, not 6 skills in total. You have plenty more from your class/spec.

but at the end you still have 6 skills max that you would have had chosen. They just dump the rest on you anyway - why not just give all the remaining skills to you for free, eliminating all choice since it doesn't matter? Why bother with stopping a few seconds to pick a skill every 15 levels?

Yet another example of Blizzard taking the easy way out of some very fundamental design flaws that game has had since inception, just like macros (a player-made solution to Blizzard-made problems.)

Those talents you get to choose in WoW from MoP and onwards will be real choices and from what I can, at least for my class so far, there is no "right" choice.

All those things you choose anyway, or rather you -have- to choose as you level up and get talents will be supplied straight up as a skill or improvement as you reacl the adequate level depending on which spec you have chosen.

So as a warrior, I don't have to "choose" putting talents into the talent that allows me to use Overpower after Rend have done damage, I will get that as part of my arms skills.
Why do I put "choose" in brackets? Because not taking it is not a choice, the spec simply doesn't work without.

Blizzard's solution is simplicity without being stupidity. It's Keep It Simple (Stupid) while still retaining choice to the maximum effect.

In TOR both in specs and in skills there are choices that are so obviously mandatory that to call it a choice is dillusional.

Yet that's still more skills then I actually get to chose in SWTOR from what I can see.

Because the point is that the skills available in the talent tree will give you a choice that matters. They take the things people actually wanted out of the current trees, i.e. skills that altered your play style, and threw away all the filler you had to get through to get them.

Even if that were the case it make it all the more of a shame that SWTOR appears to be repeating their mistakes.