Nauros:
To be fair, the Galactic challenges will make it better unless the rewards are complete trash at all levels.
This is, indeed, why I'm looking forward to GalChallenges.
I mean, it's nice to have something new to do. In fact, let's not undersell that: it's incredibly important. But whether you have anything to do or not, the quests for new characters simply take too long. If we're playing an extra 30 minutes a day, on average, because we have the shiny new GCs, but a 4 month GL farm still takes 3 months and 29 days, that's going to be ridiculously disappointing. We'll be putting in more time, total, to earn those characters if we're playing more per day and it still takes nearly the same number of days to complete the farm/ quest/ event.
It's 8 months after LS Geo TB was released and we don't even have characters released that can 4/4 a p4 combat mission with god mods on an r7 toon. Luke and GL Rey are going to make a big difference, and I'm glad I have Rey for that reason, but there's nothing to pair Rey with that can get you 4/4 on p4.
This isn't something that we can hope to achieve someday, because we don't know if they'll ever release enough toons for you to put together multiple squads that can get 4/4 on p4. It's entirely possible that will never happen.
...but if it does happen, what it looks like now is that we'll have to go through GL or (at minimum) JKL style quests to get them. I don't know about Rey's ultimate because I've just started that quest a few days ago (it's been a couple weeks since unlock, but I needed to finish t4 and t5), but so far she's taken 5 months and if her squad mates take something similar, then you're talking about 16-20 more months to assemble the team around her that will make finishing a p4 combat mission possible.
They haven't even released those toons, but we know it will be 16-20 months if they're anything like the Rey quest (without ultimate). JKL is better, but also not enough to go 4/4 on p4. 4 more JKL toons will likely take about 12 months ... after they're released.
All of which is to say, this is not tenable. The GalCChallenges are going to have to bring those times down substantially. That's not to say that they need to bring down the time required for getting GL Rey & Jedi Luke. If you need a character gate, you need a character gate. But having those characters should enable you to finish GCs that dramatically quicken those subsequent quests.
We all want something to do, but rewards will play a huge role in whether or not GCs become successful.
