Who the heck suggested making it shorter? The last thing we need is for it to only cater to people who have time to cap a character in one day, and screw those of us who play throughout the week. This also tells those people they shouldn't play at all at the start of the week, so they don't waste their cap.

I am frankly amazed this passed any sort of check to prevent CCP from being stupid. It's missing the one piece of feedback we've all universally agreed is needed, and put in a bunch of things that screw everyone else.

You're assuming that most folks who spend most of their time playing a first-person shooter will take time off to watch a game of athletes smashing into each other, suffer concussions, and later filing a class-action lawsuit against the NFL. Yeah, I'll stick to Dust, thank you.

People complained it took 7 days to cap because for the 2x SP event you didn't double the passive in game SP, so the grind time was almost twice as long to cap.
As such, what you SHOULD do if you want to allow ease of access to event rewards, is extend the event, not shorten it to 3 days, which forces you to wait the weekdays then powergrind to cap.
Instead you should make the event last for 2 weeks, starting on cap reset, ending on cap reset. but you can keep the overall bonus SP pool from event, the same. This way players feel less inclined to power grind, as they can get the rewards over a 2 week span.