Looking at the TwitchTV livestreams, obviously I'm late in watching them and I have the expansion preorder and will be playing. But I must say this, from what I'm seeing I'm seeing Bioware doing the same as Blizzard did in WoW, "ok let's take the highly customize-able Skill Trees and make it where everyone gets everything and just give them a small handful of things that makes them unique in the class. Why? Cause people QQ about speccing taking a lot of time and paying to respec cause of a miss-click" This time Bioware might do a better job at this as we have more things to choose from instead of the 1 of 3 skills that Blizzard did at each tier. However as a player who enjoys Hybrid builds and going against the normal "Stroke my EPEEN with my DPS meter" style builds that elitist harp on and kick you out if you flat don't have that specific build. I like that the new skills are going to be nice and some of the new Utilities sound very good. Some of the things might still be like you're being pushed massively into a "this is your rotation and that's it" styles of play, and I will find out when the 3.0 hits. I do understand why you don't like Hybrid builds as it is a lot of "what if" questioning on testing to make sure things aren't getting broken and overpowered, and let me say here that I'm not worried about this change, I'm just worried about the number of customizations that a discipline has to allow a player to feel like he is getting a build that isn't so cookie cutter that EVERYONE has it.
Just putting this suggestion out there to maybe up the customization points from the 7 to like maybe 12-14, enough to make you feel like you can change things around every few levels by getting 1 more new change that isn't an expected given at that level to all of that discipline. Again my opinion might change after playing 3.0 but I just have this foreboding feeling, a disturbance in the Force, that a possible repeating of bad choices by another game in trying to simplifying the game to streamline it for casuals ending up making it worse for others. I also know this suggestion will most likely get trolled, and I will stave off the trolls in saying I'm most likely not going to be checking this post later as I just wanted to throw this out for the world to think on. I hope I enjoy the 3.0 expansion as much as I have enjoyed the game thus far.