I agree that swtor still has a bunch of the common quality of life stuff missing and the reason I enjoyed it so much for the first month probably had to do with the class that I chose to play.
But still, to this day I have not played an mmo where I really was interested in the story of my character. I still believe the game looked great (environment, not the armor). Also I would imagine that why I liked the game more so than it might have merited is because of lightsabers, but I had more fun at the release of swtor than I had at the release of rift, tera, war, aoc, etc. I do wish it would have been better, but if I was given a chance to get my money back I wouldn't even consider it, I easily got my money out of it. Plus I am not a cheap bastard, or someone who doesn't do research on their purchases, I knew exactly what I was getting myself into.