To me the raf thing isn't really the same thing. I can see what you mean though. And isn't swtor free to play now? Even if it isn't those things I wouldn't care about. They're only cosmetic so it's not like it's a big deal but the faster leveling does kind of creep near the boundary of buying character power. Especially when we already pay a sub fee to play I would expect anything that could give us an advantage to be achievable in game.
And the poll is kind of bad...I didn't choose any of the options.