Im fairly new to the CoH forms so bare with me, Im now a 3 year vet but have been playing on and off sense about 2006(5 maybe) it took me about 1 year to get to level 50 and immediately went into playing my shade. By then I knew a lot about the game and if there was a question I would probably be able to answer it. So what Im trying to get at is that although the Epic AT may have not been meant to be uber or in the writers case epic that when you look at a PB or WS you(or at least I) think that they have had some background in the game. Im not saying that 50 should be the achievement but I think maybe 20 is a little too low. I guess I might be biased but I do feel that maybe level 30 or 35 is a better suit for a epic archetype.
I feel that because of the unlocking and having to be a certain level it does give a newer gamer something to look forward to in the game, and 20 is something easily earned within a small amount of time with new versions of farming like AE. I 100% agree that 50 is too high but I feel that 20 is too low and I would love to see a happy median worked out.
Again Im probably just biased so I dont really count much.