That’s the level of unimaginativeness I expect form CCP. There are tons of ways for interesting planet-side content. The chronicles mention that one time where an Capsuleer Rokh threatens to attack a planetary city if the city doesn’t allow the exploitation of nearby resources. A distress call could be broadcasted region or cluster-wide to kill the attacker in space. Likewise, you could have attacks on research or military facilities and could be asked to help defend the compounds or you could be asked to aid the attacks.
Likewise, silent planet stuff could come from exploration in space to explore ruins Lara Croft or Indiana Jones style. There are crap loads of ruins sites in the EVE cluster due to the lore and history. Or you could get hired by pirates for infiltration missions.
Essentially everything is just “Shoot that, go there”. If you have an issue with that, you will be very disappointed by the player created content. 
That content is even worse than missions or anoms.
Here are more things that could be introduced that are low effort, but engaging and variable depending on circumstsances: