This game is by no means a sandbox. Sandboxes give players the tools of gameplay and then sit back to see what happens. A great example of sandbox gameplay (ignoring it's flaws) is EVE Online.
Which email provider are you using? I use a quality email provider (gmail) and in 7 years I've only seen about 4 phishing attempts end up in my inbox. The rest are automatically routed to spam.
Want to know the funny part about all of this?
This community is largely made up of the WoW community. That should put all the WoW bashing into perspective.
"THIS GAME IS NOT WOW!!!! GO BACK TO WOW YOU!!!!"
Hey, wait a minute. I've seen that kind of answer to the sharding situation several times now but as any SWTOR fanboy will tell you, SWTOR doesn't have mindless kill quests.