I am happy for people to get to EL 85 so easily, but for FTP players, letting the recipes "ride" for this era means FTP players can't get characters to EL65. I'm locked out of levelling up Partagaz and Dedra, as I now require Mk 3 EL mats to take them up (which I don't have, and can't get anymore). Further, I was going to be able to take several of my characters to EL75, which I can no longer do, as again, I don't have Mk 3 mats anymore.
Edit: After some more thought, it's also bad that people are getting to L85, or L95 for free. Not cause it's unfair from a FTP perspective, but it's really bad from the perspective of people who already spent to get to those levels. My current best thought is they have to reset the era levelling back to 0-85, with the proper costs to level, then rollback everyone's characters to Era Level 0 and refund all materials. Then we can re-level our characters back up to where they "should" be. But really, this is all a mess. Really ruined a lot of excitement for me today.