Do keep in mind that your personal, singular experience and choices don’t really translate well to what hundreds of thousands of new players (or old players) experience. You still seem hung up on “the anecdote” as your reality check, while dismissing decades of numbers that detract from your arguments.
And your viewpoint seems to have changed quite a bit since you decided to join the gankers:
Interesting how much “retrospective hindsight” you’ve been applying to your view of EVE lately.