Far as I can tell, and I'm not even paying half-a-mind to anything, it's about the same thing, but it's being tempered by merits, which these days allow you to buy any recipe, which can then also be converted to other recipes. That, plus some market seeding by the devs, is supposedly going to keep the market from overheating the way it sort of did in the old days, so you won't need billions of INF to get stuff. It might mean having to grind a bit more for your stuff (ala those merits), but you can more easily make them yourself too.
And of course there's always the random drops. I've had a few good rare recipes drop for me, and one purple, and I'm not having any trouble at all keeping my leveling toons slotted with SOs.
Maybe once I hit 50 on one I may try and trick them out with sets and so on (or maybe not), but they'll still be quite playable.