Mats missions aren't the same thing as gathering mats from nodes - much slower and costly.
Nowhere in my post I was talking about lower level alts.
In fact, I have ten level 65 alts, and one level 62 or 63.
I've done KOTFE on 2 alts, and have no desire whatsoever to do it again on others.
So, I don't see why these alts should be gated from area where BW is planning to place nodes.
Previously, it wasn't required to do Makeb, Oricon, Rishi and Yavin 4 stories in order to access these areas.
I don't see why it should be changed now.