Excellent idea, but remember, its ALL about marketing and profit, so without kotor / kotor2 remake being out (yet), they most likely will not bother, its all about what is going to be the new stuff or will be in the future on disney , or whatever game (if any) will be released.
You cannot convince me that adding pirates to an era that has nothing to do with pirates was a community choice, or has anything else then commercial reasons. They needed some extra characters, instead of having a good brainstorm they looked up recent viewing of most popular SW show atm (or so it seems).
I would prefer a break in new characters in favor of a era of replenishing. No new characters, no new raid, just a season of pick what raid you want and go nuts but as i said, nor profit in that