I think it should be more difficult for several reasons
1) There wording was that it would be a difficult task to reclaim the sith throne (i mean if said task was farming, ive done that, no skill)
2)Its more fun, Jedi revan event was put on auto and it'll work. heck you didnt even need to fully level up characters. The event was really dull masked by a character release.
3) Its in their interests to make people spend at least some gear (besides HK and Bastilla). The more gear people spend the more pressure on dolphins to replenish their stocks, Whales will always spend. But convincing people to farm a whole extra team will cause profits in future releases not just this one.
Events should not be as easy as Jedi revan events because that was one of the easiest first time round pve events in the games history. Yoda, Palpatine were much harder on release but powercreep has made them easy. Theres more ways to stock up gear now and g8 should not be the standard. Push the event to be at the very least Thrawn legendary and have g9 characters. and even then id want further and have at least g10 with super rng. g11 to clear more reliably