Nope, ... u didn't miss anything. Its working as intended: to get money from card (with your consent) or force you to play endlessly the silly fleet missions or the pretty good STF's but you will need to do more of those compared to S6. Ahhh.. wait... put on top the marvelous pug experience (PQ still down)... you will…
Although for some this might seem a bad thing to do... I think this bug, exploit... or whatever you wanna call it, IT'S AWESOME. Me thinks this should be added to "working as intended" list ASAP. I didn't had so much fun since STO came online a few years ago. I had popcorn too while reading this thread. Ofc this should be…