I am planning on stopping spending because when they mixed up the shards for coliseum before the new Era, I had been put into a more heavy spending one. I was top 20-30 last coliseum, similar spending I am 100-200. The last mention on coliseum was concerned with FTP experience but the experience for spenders is more abysmal.
I usually get conquest pass plus, but the datacron change has me questioning this, I get it to give me several days at end of conquest. I usually hoard then after the first conquest level up a batch, this time I hoarded a bunch of mats, planning to get datacrons with shard shop currency. Turns out immediately after conquest it switched to new set. So I wasted money again. It’s now more than 700 crystals to get a datacron of the last set.
I am also concerned the Era system will delay preparing for next raid or make it more expensive to rush.
Overall the last 3-6 months has put me off spending a lot. Most of the changes have not suited my play style and I just don’t feel spending is adding to my enjoyment of the game anymore.