Is F2P dying a slow death?

Here is a great example of why shard drop increase will solve the entire issue. I just spent 300 crystals on cantina refreshes. Which comes out to around 18 tries for a vet chewie shard. I ended up getting 4 shards. This is just ridiculous. If those 4 shards would of been 8 or 12(which 3x current drop rate would be a little excessive imo) then the grind would not put me 6 months away from being able to be any help in heroic sith raid. This doesn’t even take into account the time it took to farm the other characters for JTR...who is 100% needed by a majority of your guild to make it past phase 1 heroic sith raid.