I completely agree. This issue is nearly game breaking. Its completely unfair to be on the republic side of this game. Most Empire players have already been able to completely snowball to where they have a great advantage over republic players. Currently it is nearly impossible to complete the PvP Daily in Ilum. Its frustrating.
I can accept ability delay, quest bugs, end game raid bugs, and a slew of other issues. What I can not accept is the PvP being completely unfair due to population imbalance. My group of four republic players can not compete against 30 imperials. Get more players? Get better? Naivety. There are not more players to play with and I'm sure we're just as skilled(more or less) than the empire players.
This needs to be fixed Bioware. It's not fun.