I'm on Star Forged and found some of the crafted ones for several hundred thousand, but the ones bought with space comms start at 15 million and go up from there - way too much for me.

This is a developer created issue which needs a developer created solution. FPs are NOT even close to balanced for the time commitment or for difficulty level, and there are no adjustment to rewards between the fastest / easiest or the longest / most difficult. I mean they have talked about their metrics and data in the past - but even without data I and I imagine almost everyone in this thread can identfy the outlier instances that are significantly faster / easier than average (and selected / completed much more frequently), as well as the outlier instances that are significantly longer / more difficult than others (and have higher failure / abandon / deselected). Seriously, having an instance with 3 loot bosses that takes less than ten minutes to complete with no chance of failure which counts for the daily / weekly / conquest objective in the same queue with an instance that takes 20+ minutes with more than 3 bosses (but only 3 dropping loot) and has a high degree of possible failure while also counting the same for daily / weekly // conquest objectives is idiotic. A combination of better tuning / difficulty balance along with some tie back to time - effort / rewards is needed. Some simple solutions could include doing a tuning pass to bring outlier fights closer to the average, add loot to all the optional / extra bosses, count a longer instance as +2 towards objectives, provide more rewards at end of longer instances (more xp, more frags, loot box with more loot). Anything that doesn't address the root issue of unbalanced tuning and rewards not reflecting time and effort spent is almost certain to fail. I'm sick of getting HS over and over, but even though I check all, I'm not sticking around and wasting my time in something like Nathema if it happens to pop, while I will sigh and run HS for the nth time.