First let me address... I am a returning player after about a year break so forgive me all for the "Ops = Sub" i forgot they changed that a while back (still not a great idea on all of them but what eves...) another posters comment is true and swtor does have to make money so that we can all keep playing.
Also just FYI to all of you... RELICS of the GREE even originally was introduced back when level cap was 60 so uh YEA lvl 60 toon can complete it. They may have upped the strength a bit over the years but still NOT a hard boss to fight on SM
As for your Comment Mike I would agree if we were only talking about HM ops... SM Ops have been being pug'ed since the early days (not that it was refered to as SM back then) and the xeno i can say that I have pug'ed it more times than i can count over the years and can count on 1 hand the number of fails