I must have had fun, because I could not see myself completing the event on 6 different characters if I didn't.
I have to agree there are pros and cons to the event. I personally found the looking for smuggler's crates kind of enjoyable. Of course, I'm always up for an Easter egg hunt I liked how I had control of how many tokens I could collect. I never really liked other events I participated in in other games that would tell me, "You can only collect this many each day and that's it." I would have liked to have seen dailies just to add variety to the token collecting.
I did not care a lot for the quests that you had to activate an item and wait for another player/s to finish before the item would respawn. That just slowed things down, and could be used to grief other players...and I'm sure some griefing did occur.
I liked the speeder quest. That was fun and original. The follow-the-bounty hunter quest, while original, did get a bit tedious after the 3rd cut scene. Would it have been possible to have spawned a bh that only that player could see and follow?
Overall, the event was a nice change of pace. I hope to see more and more world events added as they break up the monotony of leveling and ops. Four months between events is quite a long time. It would be nice if we could have events on a monthly or every other month basis.