The plan is to remove vet levels in the next DLC. Currently, ZoS are saying that to equip V16 gear, you just need to have 160 CP. 10 CP per get level, which seems fair.
But here is the issue, if your CP is disabled in the non CP campaign, what happens with gear? If you can still equip vet level gear, the power gap is still there. That defeats the purpose of a non CP campaign.
Are people going to need a whole new set of gear that requires no CP to equip?