I didn’t see any emerging conduits outside of the invasion systems either.
The emerging conduits in the invasions are named the same as before but now have way more difficult spawns, with damaviks all the way up to leshaks. The payout is less, 1.5mil isk and 100LP compared to about 4mil isk and 300LP previously. Although, red loot drops may be more, but could have been RNG or larger wrecks.
The content is made a little more interesting in that opposing groups will sometimes rep the npc’s. Our group spent almost 5 min trying to take down a Leshak, was pretty impressed how effective 3 augorors can be.
I can say the content is pretty fun at first, even with low rewards. Just can’t say if the content will be able to retain interest in the long run without appropriate payout, we are only human after all… 
@Siegfried_Tahl this may be an interesting study if CCP is experimenting if players will do things for rewards vs. altruism, as in payout vs. saving high sec, or some other motivations, as in reference to your topic of why people play.