I feel awful for those being laid off, but honestly this was inevitably coming for SWTOR sooner or later. I'm just thankful they aren't outright shutting it down. My personal experience of the game is that it was never a great MMO, but it's an excellent single player game with occasional multiplayer interaction. I've gone back multiple times just to replay the numerous single player storylines.

Can't believe we're coming up on the 11th anniversary soon. This has always been my favorite MMO.

If you like MMOs and other multiplayer games, https://massivelyop.com/ is very good. Talented writers funded by reader donations.