Everything you mentioned was NGE content, which was when the game was wowified.
Spoken like someone who never played SWG pre-cu. There was no end game pre-cu (besides jedi), the players had to make it. We did make it and it was the most fun in a video game I've ever had. You really don't get player created end game content until you play a game like SWG. This stuff was a daily occurrence on my server.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nD0m9G5ZanA
notice how it's open world. Player created PvP content.