You can think what you want, but de-level still feels like a humiliation for me. I think I'm not alone here.
If the whole point of this leveling down our characters was to encourage players visit storyline planets, it will be a total fail. I do not want to lose level of my capped characters, I feel bad for it, I do not need it. If I want to revisit planet on its actual level, I pick another alt.
The optional LS seems ok. The mandatory - total fail.