First i have no issue with marquee events, they do get you the toons to play with, and occasionally one is worth playing at three star.
This character is obviously aimed at HSIT, P1, and it may be useful in other phases which is also cool (it doesn't stop the raid from being a bag of arse, but eventually it will make it easier).
However i suspect that this character will go straight into a single hard node again, and that means for most people it will be unreachable for another 6 months or so to get to a point where it is viable and usable in HSIT, my concern is how many will quite the game due to this terrible raid in that time.
I dont expect to get it for free or even easily, however i do hope that they chuck us a bone and add him to a store or even Cantina, lets face it whats the point of a character that helps if the game becomes so monotonous that people quit before they get that character.
He looks interesting though.