Past history shows CCP is quite iffy on designing and coding interesting games, but they’ve definitely mastered talking in circles about any vague notions they have “in the works”.
While it would be good for CCP to create more tools to attract and interest players in player corps, CCP has been saying this “encourage players to join player corps” thing for over a decade now. They started with the NPC tax way back when and then took another 5 years just to realize that wardecs were chasing “player corps” out of the game in droves.
CCP has a strong tendency to talk about the need for smaller groups in game, and then design things that work best for either the largest group possible, or multiboxers. They’ve never really understood small group play.
Let’s hope they make more of an effort this time.