If your band of four friends have an atomic bomb, they can conquer anything they want, and the 400-500 friends aren't even a threat.
And that's what repeatable crafting objectives during crafting weeks were all about. If the 4 friends worked hard to craft their "atomic bomb", meanwhile the 400 were playing football thinking no one could harm their due to their numbers, the 4 friends shoud absolutely have the right to conquer the planet.
And I can promise you, it was NEVER easy. I am leader of a small guild, and it's been nearly 6 months since we began to prepare to go against larger guilds. We were almost finished, when Bioware released 5.8 and changed the schematic for crafting our "atomic bombs" with no warning
So now, we're left with a lot amount of mats that are now useless to make our bombs. Mats that we spend 6 months of our time and energy to gather. And I'm not even talking about credits and real money involved....
How is that fair?