The way I read Swtoristas article is you can get max level gear by doing conquests, flash points or ops.
I don't know if the gear from conquests will be inferior to ops at max level in some way, but it sounds like the gear level will be the same.
Based off of what Swtorista is saying. I think the gear level you get from doing flash points and conquest are the same at 320. It looks like they would be the same, but conquest gear is cheaper to upgrade. So why do flash points if its cheaper to upgrade conquest gear? Will conquest gear be inferior as you upgrade it?
After reading the Dev post it sounds like you need to do flash points to get a currency to get the new legendries. Will tech fragments be removed or just worthless now?