I did grind the first week and I have enough helix components to get any weapon I want. And I did it on 6 x 50s, I put in a lot of time and i can reap the rewards. If I want, I can get 6 speeders this week, but tbh I can't be bothered. The point is that after I have bought the weapons I fancied for my alts, what do I do with all the 1 & 2 helix components leftover? Just something else to take up bank space, if they were BoL they could be pooled at least. But as I stated numerous times, I choose to do it straight away, others while pace it... same work involved.
So as far as 'but I want the stuff now', I would actually say that it's more a case of needing something different to do for a fortnight.... and the cash was good Not like there is a tonne of stuff to do in this game (except dailies)