I am sort of on board with OP.
Although, I have my own thoughts and opinions, I played SWG for a year or so as well as WoW and Aion. The whole story based aspect of the game in Swtor is amazing and should be added to. However, I feel like its too story driven, they claim the game is based upon "4 Pillar's" yet Im only noticing the 4th pillar (story) in the game while leveling.
Im hoping the end game planets are more social and inhabited, such as; Illum, Hoth and etc.
Seeing more players around would bring back the mmo view to me, for the game.