Thank you OP for posting this well-written text of yours. It - sadly - coincides with some of my own ideas concerning TOR. I am calming myself with an experience of some past MMO being vastly bugged and under-developed at their start... but this is rather a dangerous path. For example, Age of Conan which been reduced to 3-4 servers, dying Warhammer Online and such. I sincerely hope SWTOR will not follow their path and developers will find a way to improve and get rid of bugs and terrible design ideas but at the moment it feels clumsy, single-player and sometimes even irritating in it's most important parts as companion system, voiceovers, lore and quest systems.