Is F2P dying a slow death?

Everyone keeps talking about the new shard as if arena is the only thing that matters. Any new players who remain F2P will never partake in any new raid content in this game. Most guilds right now can’t even bed or attempt heroic sith. Those are guilds made up of players with 1.5+ years of play time as well. No one starts a game and says hey once I’ve spent some decent time grinding in this game I’ll be fine never being able to do the neeedt raid content. That’s just idiotic. Sith raid has been out for a fair amount of time now and there are still so many guilds who are unable to reach traya shards. With the current path this game is on it will certain loose many F2P people. If any of you out there think loosing the F2P means less then loosing the whales you are wrong. If a huge player base is not kept in a game like this then it will certainly die off. Whales do not make up enough of the population to keep this game going for years to come. The easiest way to fix everything is to increase shard drops on all nodes.( space, cantina and hard nodes) if each time you run 1 sim you have the chance to get 2 or maybe 3 shards this would close in the gap of farming squads. That gap closing is all that is needed. Shard increase per sim is the way to go. It doesn’t cost CG any money from the whales and it keeps the F2P clients in game.