You gotta learn not to live in the past. For people like you SWG can't ever recover from its past reputation by moving forward, it has to move backward to improve. If you go backwards, you aren't progressing. Judge SWG for what it is now, not what made it what it is today. Sure it did a big change that served as a warning to all MMO developers, but the game has outlived Matrix Online and Tabula Rasa and others, which is something at least.

I resubbed recently, and it ain't that horrible. It's like new nostalgia. It's both old and new. 90% of the good stuff I enjoyed(housing and using the wide range of clothing and armor and appearance customization to look exactly how I want) are still in there. That alone makes it still a fun game for me.