PT Barnum had signs up that pointed This way to the Great Egress at his circuses that duped many people into believing there was an attraction there but it was in fact the exit. Upon exiting you had to pay to enter again into the circus.

This event isn't that but the marketing used makes much ado about nothing special.

For example the requirement to have companions enabled to receive companion items. This is always the case. There's also in the advert reports of a guaranteed chance for legendary jewels for companions but again if companions are active, isn't this always the case? Is there anything about the event itself that increases the drop rate? We aren't told that.
And if if the drop rate for high end companion gear was increased, how can i tell? If the chance before the event was double or increased by 100%, that could mean i now have a .010% instead of a .005% chance. That would be doubled or 100% increase but still effectively little to none. SO the advert for the event just restates what is already known to be true for using companions? Pretty much. Having played the event some and having gotten my fill of apirants from the companion quests (greatly needing some anti-aspirant) I see the drops for my companions are about the same or no better at least than before the event and i feel duped into thinking that there might be something more offered in the way of companion gear than is typically available. I can not see that to be the case. There's nothing in my drops for companion gear that seem any different than before and indeed the CP system seems like it might have the solution to getting better companion drops but nothing about the event seems to.

Don't get me wrong, i like the loot boxes and i have most of the steadfast purple armor and weapon style pages for crafting and i like the increased resources. The occasional golden style pages are dropping much less often that the last event but also there's only the one set being offered also. I don't have much use for the golden style pages anyway.. They don't help with writ vouchers and they don't seem to effect my stickerbook for reconstruction so their utility is limited to "oh look how fancy my imaginary character is".

I spent a lot of effort to ensure all 9 toons had both companions for the event. While i didn't fall for the great egress trick, i'm still duped into doing all that effort for essentially no measurable increased drops benefit during the event for companion gear as far as i can tell.