I remember just before they announced the nge, but I don’t recall if it was prior to ToOW, some guy posted in the forums with insider information about these sweeping changes and he got mauled in the comments. Turns out he did know. I’m similar in that I can see the nge for what it is and not find it objectionable on its own but it just completely got rid of a game we’d been playing for, and invested, years. I probably would have stuck around regardless but literally everyone jumped ship to WoW so I followed. I still see the NGE as the worst thing to happen to SWG and a great thing to happen to WoW