Now see, that just makes too much sense, get off the internet.

BioWare allowed them to be killed off in Beta, people wanted to see if it could happen just because ya know. Then most of them were panicking that they just lost their healer/ranged tank/dps/whatever. So they changed it because you couldn't unmake that choice. So don't call them lazy when it was done mainly because of how badly people were freaking out. Check out tvtropes.org, search for The Old Republic, and scroll down to the Lost Forever entry for what Daniel Erickson had to say on the matter.

Yeah, I kinda enjoy it on my Sniper and Powertech, but my Juggernaut? Eh not so much. Let's just say, the balance issues between advanced classes and their powers really show in Huttball.

I just want the ability to choose my warzones.