This is a good update.
Feat Tracking is being beta tested right now by us. Episode Quest tracking can easily be updated and improved for Conquest Feat tracking.
You have direct control over what rewards you get for Episode Currency. These rewards span every bottleneck in the game. No more piles of useless crap. I want X, I get X guaranteed.
The game now has an established cadence with promised content delivery. No more radio silence. No more guessing. You get X content over Y span from Z era.
Episode Pass is not required. It just adds value, as dollars should. It provides fun quests and weird challenges to your daily grind. I haven't used Kanan in awhile, so it was nice to have an incentive to bring him out.
Was a weird choice to start off with such an obnoxious GC, but still a good step for the game in the long term.