They're doubling the rate you get (non-Darkfuse) reps with 11.1.5 - and good thing too, as I think it was going to be five months until I could start working on paragon rewards.
But again, its not the total time investment that sucks (you could probably spend 10 minutes twice a week there and get all the rep for the week), its the subscription padding - you can only sign up for one rep per week, and it's tied to your entire warband, so there are zero options to try and expedite the process in less _subscription_ time.
Edit: Not that there aren't still bullshit RNG farms. If you want the full set of
Miscellaneous Mechanica based mounts & pets, you need 113 of them, and they really only come off of rares -mostly the cartel-tied ones that your warband can only trigger one of the four each per week. Given that I have all of 12, after what, five weeks, I consider that a laughable time commitment - the mounts aren't even unique models, they're just reskins.