The stupid low reward rate of companies is to prevent ppl from reaching seal cap too fast. I'ts just annoying they adding uneeded caps just to then use these caps to f'up players...

I do agree companies were a tremendous deception...but i just assume they did this to start the base lore of 2.0. As was said, the only thing that will continue past "Meteor" are the companies so i'd say they might just become your brand new allegiance in the new lore. With the large-scale PvP that seems to be OTW, IMO the new lore might be based on the war between companies...Horde vs Alliance i'd say.

So companies might be pointless right now, but i do am expecting them to grow in content over time much more than any other aspect of the game.