The biggest problem with these updates is that you used to be able to gear your characters without sacrificing your shard farming. Now you have relic gear in Cantina and G12 finishers on regular energy nodes. If you want to gear a character to g13 or beyond you have to stop farming shards.
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Or your new and shiny character is 2 metas behind once you are done
That is enough to farm Carth, farm Nest, and farm G12+ pieces. There are also multiple parallel sources of G12 gear, including the shard shop, the GET store, and the Sith raid.