The complaints arise from the fact that in order to gain a legendary (via the crafting process), you are meant to have taken part in a number of gameplay activities.
By handing out so many free badges, people can essentially, completely avoid one of these activities.
It’s nice getting free stuff, even tons of badges. But it would have been a better system to offer a choice between say badges and dungeon tokens. If you are going to allow pve players to completely bypass wvw, then you should offer wvw players the chance to bypass dungeon runs.
Both are needed for legendaries, both can be converted into items/gold.
Last time I checked legendaries were purchasable on the trading Post meaning you can avoid everything you mentioned
