Once again, this is my opinion and my suggestion. If you don't like it, then you shouldn't reply.
This suggestion wasn't based on existing characters missing out on the event, it was for those of us who wanted to reroll with the Legacy update and the timeframe between that and the event, which was roughly four days. I know the event went for nine days.
You can sit there and say how easy it is to get to 25 in that amount of time. Maybe some people, like myself, did not have the free time to spend levelling a new character for the event? Put your egos aside and remember that this is MY opinion. There is nothing forcing you to reply to something you don't like.