Sorry OP I just don't agree with you. The fact you can get raid level gear without even doing the actual raid itself is reward enough. It is there for people to get gear who either don't want to raid or are putting in the time to get drops and just are unlucky with the RNG. I actually love the fact that it takes a long time to get.

One of my biggest concerns for when the game launched was this very issue on whether tokens dropping for raid level gear would be too easy to obtain. This is a solid system they have in place and I am a big fan of it. Either put in the time to raid and you will eventually be rewarded either through drops or tokens (or both) or run dungeons a bunch to get the raid equivalent gear.