Thank you for the post, it's always appreciated yet I have to say that I absolutely dislike the idea that no new character will join the arena, the guild war, the fleet or the cantina stores. Just let me decide if I should use my currencies to farm character shards or shard shop currency. If the decision behind this is that players now have accumulated so many currencies for those shops that they might immediately seven star a character that would join any of these shops, that's on you because you didn't update them for so long. Those currencies haven't been stolen, they have been earnt so let people get the value they want with them. Your approach is upsetting and it will make the guild and guild event stores a mess. We will be even more subject to rng. And packs of course because that is what's hidding behind. You made an effort with communication but only spill half the truth unfortunately.
