I rarely post anything on the forums, but this time I'm compelled to do so.
I despise the gearing changes in 7.0. The changes reportedly coming in 7.1 make it even worse. I'm pretty sure everything I wanted to say was said already by other members of the community, but let me reiterate it one more time:
There was nothing wrong with 6.0 gearing. Modifications were a fine and versatile system, made min-maxing interesting and engaging. You could tailor your gear in any way you wanted. Right now, you are forced to wear the exact same thing everyone wears, while the good stuff is locked behind the content 99% of players won't even touch. Even worse, if you really plan to bring back mods as OPS rewards, it will make my previous point even more frustrating - you took a perfectly good mechanic and locked it away. Just... why? I consider removing set bonuses a huge slap in our (collective) face. We've been grinding to get some of those for a long time, and you just made them useless. Even worse, their "replacement" is locked behind an even worse grind.
I could live with simplified gearing, if all the new sets were easily available for everyone, just harder to upgrade. Taking away what we've already had is just bad and inconsiderate design, though.
I've never seen such a consistently bad feedback as 7.0 is getting right now. Please, take it to the heart Bioware. Reverting to 6.0 system probably won't happen, but at least take us solo players into consideration from now on. We want freedom, not railroading and grind.