Toons for Flash events

I am glad he responded to my thread on the subject however I am still wondering what the purpose is of the actual flash events? If it's to help bridge the gear gap then having to gear up 4-5 toons just to get more gear seems counterintuitive. If they want us to see how powerful squads can be than it is nice to play with given toons so we Can use full kits if we dont have them. At first I thought the flash would be taking us through Luke's journey but that is clearly now the case? So can someone answer what is the overall purpose behind these events or is even the Dev team still trying to figure it out. They were all somewhat different and I hope we don't experience the same thing with territory battles. (The idea of testing them to see where to go next).