The way this ability pruning/selection is sounding, I am now fully expecting a "console" announcement of SWTOR. Because you have to basically dumb down the game to make it work on an Xbox/PS controller and will likely mean I go from having learning rotations and skill selection to button mashing. (If I really wanted that kind of MMO, I'd play ESO, so maybe you're just playing follow the leader.)
Either way, I hate it and I'm not alone. People here don't want a dumbed down game. They don't want a button mashy MMO or ESO or Guild Wars 2. They want new content, major expansions, new ops that aren't re-treads of Czerka 198, and if you think console CoD or Gears of War players are going switch, you're delusional.
Stop playing follow the leader. Stop looking at another MMO and go "oh, hey, let's do what they're doing" and doing it badly.
Maybe I'm wrong. I dearly hope I'm wrong because I love SWTOR and wouldn't have played it since 2012 thru thick and thin if I didn't.
The people who have stuck with you for 10 years deserve better than this.