Well I think, the ball carrier shouldn't even be allowed to move, or fight back, in fact when you have the ball you, by default, should start falling back to your own goal line. Or.... you can kill that sorcerer, at least don't let them get ahead of the carrier. Knock them off their perch, pull the ball carrier back down after they're pulled, pull the ball carrier out of LoS from the sorc, or even better, get the ball before they do and the whole thing's a non-issue. The point of the Huttball is not what you described. The point is to get the ball over the opposing times side, when you do this, your team gets a point. Weapons, name calling, and cheating (exploiting by your standards) are all encouraged. I bet you kicked the ball, didn't you?

Not a nerf, a bug fix. Though most sorcs abused it to no end and it was causing more throughput than intended. They're making Force Bending do what it is supposed to do and removing our ability to get a second fast Dark Infusion from it. It's whatever, if you used it as a crutch knowing that it's a bug it'll be your fault you won't do as well post 1.2.

Taking no action doesn't mean neutral. No action is still a choice. Kill an enemy of the empire? straight forward choices here, either do or do not. Help some slaves or make them work harder? This one is tougher, because taking no action or "being neutral" will still caused events to play out, and still play a role in your characters story. What if your future apprentice was in that mix and you don't help them? Later on the republic frees those slaves and he goes on to become a jedi, now a potentially powerful ally is on the other side. "Neutral" is still an action, a choice. Doing nothing is still a decision. It just doesn't affect your alignment any, you're not directly responsible for what happened to that slave, but you COULD have changed, or ended, his life right then and there. Your alignment is nothing more than a general reflection on your overall decisions. Grey = Neutral, which means that you, for the most part, did just as many good things as evil things in the eyes of the force. Doing what you want is not always the same thing as grey or neutral. I do what I want, I make decisions how I would want to and I ended up mostly dark side, by your logic, I shouldn't be that way.

Saying "stop whining and pick a side" is wrong, but at the same time, complaining because you have to deal with the consequence of your neutrality is just silly. I don't see what the issue is, play the game how you want, if you want to blindly click LS or DS stuff then do it, if you want to do whatever you would do in the situation then do it. Gear is a moot point because gear is mostly irrelevant until endgame, and once you reach endgame you're either done with your story, or you can come up with some RP "reflection on the past" (and yes I mean the grinding you can already do) to switch your alignment if you REALLY feel that need. My point, when posed with any situation, you can think about how it will affect your future, good or bad, and that thought can and probably should affect your decisions.