Yes - really.
Certainly I will be glad to provide you example of people doing things that may not have been done before for profit -human history.
Perhaps PA will influence ccp towards more extreme monetization of EvE, perhaps not…but why would you deny the possibility?
If PA continues (?) with a hands-off approach to ccp I think that may reinforce the speculation that PA did not buy ccp for other reasons than ccp’s held permissions to do business in China. China’s smartphone gaming market could be pretty profitable for a gamiong company who could get into that restricted market. Is it just a coincidence that ccp’s partner fortheir smartphone game EvE Echoes is the Chinese company NetEase?
So yes, if Pearl Abyss felt it was somehow in their financial interest to do the things you seem to be vehemently denying it would be possible for them to do, they would do them whether you or any of us liked it or not.
PA ultimately doesn’t need us EvE players as we are simply generating bonus money for them. Now, I personally would like EvE to continue for a very long time - but that may be with money-generating things such as a CQ redux. Regardless of anything said previously, or even anything done or not done up to this point, PA will do what they want with their property if they decide to. Sorry.
Why people still don’t get that is strange.
Really.