Not everyone has the luxury of having Campaign or Black Hole gear.
If the set bonuses do not transfer for Tionese, Columi, or Rakata gear, then for the bulk of the population, the Adaptive gear is totally worthless.
On top of that, they added the ability to add augments to any armor, so now crafted augmented gear is totally worthless. There is no need to wear it if you can get Recruit gear for free, or Tionese for very little effort and just add augments to it.
I like that they are adding content to the game, but these two features were not very well thought out.