Aarakocra Changeling Shifter will never be added. Players won't get shapeshifting or flight so there isn't any point to even list them. Warforged healing is a problem this game can't handle either, so doubtful they are going to be added either. Gensai are really 4 subraces of the main Gensai, all with different abilities…
You don't have to do every challenge, and they are offered enough that skipping the ones you don't like isn't an issue. Not sure what it has to do with the crafting changes.
The more questions I read, the more it makes it look like this was just a way to kill the Leadership AD income players had, and add in a new AD cost to keep the new morale currency full to craft.
Miss that day, you are SOL. You couldn't just mail a bundle, you had to make a really limited time frame spread over half a month for each perk. But then why make sure everyone gets them when you can limit it and not cut into your zen store sales.
You think you are going to have great DPS without putting time or effort in? 15 months for full set of top end gear isn't unreasonable either when starting a 0. And $100 spent in over a years time is nothing. $6 a month, and I'm guessing he probablay didn't even have to spend all that, some was spent for the hell of it.