Thats interesting premise considering there are 20k players clients on average stable for more a few years.
The remaining players seems to provide enough cash to make it worth running. Players are willing to play it and pay it despite all the nerfs, nearly no new content (there is a new content, but it caters to 1% of player base), canceling events, horrible UI and no improvements for last decade other than graphic stuff that nobody but few solo client miners care - to the rest of us it only causes lags.
So why would CCP care? They don’t need to do anything but to milk the rest of us because we so love it.
Besides it is terrible idea that brings nothing to the game. It will be even harder to use drones in any ship that has more than 2 flights.