I speak as a player who enjoys both PVP and PVE, but is highly devoted to neither. I also believe that the original post makes great points, but there are problems that arise from removing expertise. Firstly, it's faulty to say that everything can be, or should be, reduced to skill alone. Making that claim denies "better gear" as a reward system. Players who put in the time toward a particular aspect of the game should be rewarded to at least some degree. Otherwise, PVP or PVE in itself would get old VERY fast. Secondly, for a player who regularly enjoys only PVP or only PVE, it would be highly disenchanting to have a PVPer join a top raid and do better than a PVEer who put in the hours, or vice versa. There should be a mechanism that keeps the two aspects separate, and expertise is that mechanism. If the original post argues that there isn't much content, then by that same arguement one could say that it will not take 80 hours a week to stay current in your particular aspect of the game.

If you're really broke, and desperate, I suppose you could aggro some guys and then lead them back into the town, so that the town guards kill the creature, and then you can loot it. You won't get a lot of credits, but it may give you something

Actually, it's very nice of EA and Bioware to let us log in a bit early. They could just say "No one can play until Dec. 20." Be educated. Think it through.