Been playing TOR since about a month and a half after it launched and still love it. Love my characters and the legacy I've built over the last 3 years.
Didn't have a clue what I was doing when I first started but I learned fairly quickly just from playing and also from other people and stuck with it, because the whole idea behind it is rather cool to me. What I get from it is probably entirely different than most.
I realized then what I realized now about KotOR diehards and the Old Republic MMO - that will never change. I couldn't care less what anyone says, has said, or will say about it. I enjoy the hell out of it and that's all that matters.
I tried WoW again for a couple months because of a friend of mine was trying to get me into it. I can honestly say now I really don't care for that game, and don't see a whole lot of similarity between WoW and TOR, and most likely never will.
Heh, I'm am probably the ONLY person on these forums in particular that likes TOR. Oh well, to each his own, amirite?