I'm playing through the story in chronological order, and was sad to find out that the breadcrumb quests to send you to certain bonus series were removed, as well as some (but not all) of the planet-side flashpoint breadcrumbs that send you back to the fleet (e.g. Athiss breadcrumb on Nar Shaddaa, and Cademimu on Alderaan).
Was also sad that with the heroic quests on planets I don't have an option anymore to hand in those quests at the quest giver like you used to be able to, so all of that dialogue is just cut and missed out on. I don't mind at all giving players the option to hand them in instantly and skip all that dialogue to save time for those who want that, but what about for those of us who are just playing story/RP and only want to do each heroic once and hand it in at the quest giver?
It seems odd to me that on the one hand the developers make all these decisions which cut against what many people want/expect from an MMO in order to give the story players more creative choice/freedom (e.g. unlinking combat styles and class stories), and yet with the other hand remove all these neat little story elements to make things more accessible for the more traditional MMO players who are, for example, grinding heroics.
Like, why can't we have both on the few points I outlined above? There was no reason to remove the breadcrumb quests or heroic dialogue. Don't mind giving people shortcuts and allowing it to be skipped, but don't make it totally inaccessible! :(
Also, one minor quality of life suggestion I have (and I don't know why this was never implemented before), but when a quest has a bonus quest associated with it either grant the bonus quest to the player immediately so they won't accidentally miss it, or otherwise put some kind of indication in the quest log what the bonus quest is so the player knows its there at least.
Also - please restore a lot of the bonus quests that were removed?? A lot of them can be locked behind the 'exploration quests' so, again, not sure why they were gutted in the first place??
All I'm asking is for the developers to restore content which: (a) already exists; and (b) anyone who doesn't want to do it can completely skip. This literally will not effect anyone who doesn't care about or want to do this content, but it will be a nice thing for those of us who do want to do it but now can't because it was removed for no reason.
[Posted on behalf of u/-Caesar because I am in complete agreement. ]