I have the same issue, with a slight twist. I am a solo player. I love the game and enjoy the way crafting has been implemented. I'd like to be able to obtain every crafting item through some sort of quest, even an onerously long one for BoP items. I don't want to group because I rarely have time to play for more than small snatches of time, and it's clearly not fair to the group to have to leave in mid stream. So...my choice to enjoy the game solo. I recognize that the whole thrust of MMORGs is social interaction, and SWTOR is certainly structured in that way to reward social game play, but for a player who does not want to group and does not want to join a guild, there ought to be a way to get to the highest content in crew skills through individual effort.