This has been complained about for an entire year now, why is this still not fixed? It's evolved from the point of being "extremely annoying" to "instant rage when I see the banner". Having put up with this broken POS for a year, it's time for someone to do something about this. It should have Interface Options. Make it happen.

Your extremely long post hit the nail on the head. Every paragraph was exactly what I was thinking. So far, not enjoying this new story. Game is ridiculously easy now, which has sucked alot of the fun out of it. What might have made the story worthwhile: Have all 8 character classes present for each chapter, and have to split up to perform 8 different tasks to advance the storyline. Have Republic and Imperial players able to form single groups to do chapters of the story. Hypothetical Chapter: Smuggler has to go slice a computer to break down security while the trooper holds back advancing guards, bounty hunter has to go retrieve a technician to gain access to a main computer, operative has to eliminate an overseer that is trying to stop them from a control room, sith inquisitor has to cover another hallway where tons of droids are flooding in, jedi knight keeps an elite guard busy while a sith warrior destroys a secret weapon sent in to stop the whole thing, and the consular protects and shields one or more important NPCs vital to the entire mission succeeding. All 8 working together to bring down the system, and they all converge at the end to 8-player onslaught a giant raid level boss, in similar fashion to the Revan fight, but with real players. Instead SWTOR has turned into a One Player glorified chatroom, why are we paying for server access?

My friend still has the chapter 10 quest to do the end discussion with Lana, and has had that conversation about 5-6 times and the quest won't update, but the chapter XI quest was added to the quest log as if the quest was finished. I guess there are several ways this can go goofy. I hope this don't happen on my smuggler.

Did you complete Chapter 10? My friend has completed Chapter 10 and they did not receive the end rewards, the last conversation is able to be initiated and completed an infinite number of times, and the Blizz Alliance Alert will not appear in the list. It worked fine for me, and not for them, so it seems like a crap shoot.

Logged in every character and absolutely zero of my Matrix Shards have been returned.

This exact subject is the only thing that is making me seriously consider canceling my subscription. When software developers start removing my options from the software, I know it's only going to get worse in the future. I am also an NGE Veteran. I am having PTSD flashbacks of that horrible, horrible experience.

QA mistakes like this are of the same caliber as the GSI quest on Tatooine where it does not use the line "These are not the droids you're looking for". Makes me realize they hired a person that knows nothing about Star Wars to do the job, which should not be.

With as much work as you have to put into getting this one, it's been several updates and still handles like a forklift. Why has this persisted through so many updates without getting fixed?

Also sick of this popup, cannot wait to see a setting to disable this annoying new "feature".