I just saw a thread about the Serpentis Phi-Outpost now needing the passkey to enter the second room. I didn’t want to re-animate the dead so put my idea here instead.
In hisec DED sites are more often PvP in a competitive sense, the race to find the site and get the loot first. The most fun I had was when somene crashed my site or I theirs.
Locked gates entirely remove this and make a risk free possible pinata room for the first to reach the site. Locked gates should either
a) be removed entirely
B) be hackable so someone can crash a site with work. Higher DED sites having harder hacks to enter.
Competition adds fun, locking that behind gates isn’t.
each to their own. Some prefer competition to combat.