Alright, but that is not an argument to add more of it 
That iitself is not a bad goal and I am all for it. But they are doing it wrong. First they destroyed industry and trade so now the only place you can buy everything you might need is Jita and maybe Amarr, and then they added filaments and more instant-teleport mechanics and on-demand-pve - abyssal sites instead of increasing number of anomalies/signatures or their respawn.
I was trying to scan in hs few days ago to fulfill AIR challenges - in about hour of flying around I found 1 data site. That being said I needlessly scanned combat and whs to 100% when I didn’t have to, but still.
Day after I thought about getting DED5 via escalation. Grabbed a Gnosis and went into Kador, pretty much dead region with very low player count, in 2 hours of flying around I found 2 Blood Raider Dens (and 1 in lowsec which I also checked), that being said I was needlessly doing refuges when I didn’t have to, but still… This game really isn’t for casual players who can play just hour or two at weekend. Maybe it is because these new stupid homefront anomalies, or maybe it is exactly because the region is so dead, but it takes way too much time for very low reward, when other content such as abyssal takes no time to get into and gives you more reward and as a bonus the player is left alone from competition and cannot be interacted with (with exception of ganking him at exit of course). Where is balance in this?