Is F2P dying a slow death?

My personal opinion is that F2P is slowly dying not because of these paywalls. It’s dying because they’ve released so many characters that it is now impossible to catch up. If you did not have the Legendaries unlocked prior to these releases then you do nothing but get further behind. The amount of time it takes to grind out Vet Han/Chewie is insane. Due to such an insanely long grind you fall behind on every team out there that requires a cantina energy grind. I can’t complete an IT/NS squad because I’m stuck on two characters for months. I am sure I am missing many other squads that many can’t build up due to the need to have JTR to ever hope to accomplish HSTR. A simple rework on F2P shard drops in cantina and hardnode would make it much more likely for the F2P/Dolphin community to stick around. CG please look into changing the time frame it takes to grind those special required characters out. Everyone wants to feel like they pull their own weight. We should be able to get this feeling with out spending hundreds of dollars in game. I am not saying I want to reach a total 3.5m GP With out working for it. I just think a majority of the community would like to see the bridge between those at 500k GP and 3.5m GP gap close in faster. This would benefit guilds as a whole and those who feel they will never carry their own weight.