Mechanics are changed due to people abusing them, as I said many times in the past those people that decided to apply blanket war decs that are just farming exercises are the people who are most to blame.
Changing the balance of the game so loss means something is actually a good aim in terms of Eve, but in doing this it will lose a lot of players and leave only the most committed still playing. Personally I just can’t be bothered to jump through a zillion hoops to do anything in Eve any more. So I have gone from being a committed player to be totally not interested, I think that is worrying in itself.