It is going to make any fights with dark jedi a lot less exciting. The only viable strategy is just to stay hundreds of meters away and shoot them. Such fights are not super cinematic, though I personally won't mind them.
Also, should we be funneling towards somewhere, or are we just going to follow our own directions?
I don't think anyone playing a force user of either alignment would use tactics like that, again it's very rare, only really having been used a couple of times.
And yeah, I think we'll are start heading in a similar direction once we do our first arcs. Like for me, Joren and his crew will be getting off the Smuggler's Moon and heading to a location where they may be more likely to come into contact with others. And I think most everyone else will be doing something similar. This game is a bit of a sandbox style game, so there are multiple stories taking place all at once