Changing Ops on Reva node?

The exact number is irrelevant, pirate absolutely costs way more shards due to added DPS and RNG than 1 incomplete squad

While this is true, if your guild is on discord these types of changes, originally announced only here, quickly get widely discussed. If your guild did not have a pirate, then your guild was getting 6/6 Ops finished.

I maintain that there is no guild getting 6/6 on Tatooine Ops that had zero Chieftans at g12 or above. In fact, I sincerely doubt that there were any guilds getting 6/6 on TatOps that had fewer than 4 Chieftans at g12.

The officers in your guild didn't get the message. Okay, that's bad for this ONE TB, but Chieftain is a good toon and you only need one of your players to take him to r7 -- this is not a sacrifice, even if it may cause them to deviate from their preferred upgrade path.

But here on out you have 6/6 on TatOps again AND you have that Inq squad intact for your last player.

This means that in your hypothetical case of 49/50 vs. 35/50 that was only true once. But now it's 49/50 vs 50/50 two times a month forever. In 7 months you broke even. In 8 months, you've turned a profit.

In the long run this is a good change for players. And Chieftain being required on Tatooine of all places is thematically appropriate. Add that to the fact that Chieftain is a good toon and with a good Chieftain and Warrior you can crush Conquest nodes and GCs that might otherwise be difficult (Ewoks and Imps become a breeze), and no one wasted anything.

Find a volunteer in your guild who understands the value of Tuskens and let them take TC to r7. They'll benefit, the guild will benefit in the long term, and eventually everyone will be happy.

Sorry you didn't notice this in time, but it's a good change.