You know, you could take the opportunity to broaden your horizons. Shake things up a bit for yourself. The ones that are mainly affected are miners and ratters losing instant intel from local, and the warning pings from eyes in the pipeline and chokepoints. That means the ones who are affected… are primarily the ones who’s doing the most mindnumbingly dull drudge work Eve has ever had. Ratting and mining are the least input worthy activities out there, and are about as stimulating as watching paint dry on growing grass.
Now this isn’t entirely true anymore, because there’s a new factor at play. With no local, you don’t know if there’s enemies around and even d-scan can only tell you that something is there, not whether or not it’s an enemy or friendly.
This… is fuckin’ fantastic.
The situation is now such that it must be adapted to. I personally think that’s a fantastic situation to be in. Things that there’s a reason to do now, that wasn’t there before, in no particular order: Create new fits capable of surviving hunters. Either something fighty, something zoomy, something deceptive, tanked out the arse and with cloaked support nearby, something new and potentially mad (I don’t know, Blops Ratting or some absolute nonsense like that) and so on. Organize defenses! Set up camps at the routes to the bearing lands, get fights and so on. Have PvP wings doing their thing while coordinating with the bears doing their thing. I mean, you already should have been doing this, but not everyone has the super umbrella after all. Change up how you bear, perhaps? Ninja a few sites here, skedaddle a few pockets over and do a few there, another pocket and a few sites over yonder etc, become less predictable than “System X Y and Z are the ratting systems in this region, always”.
Hell, have some fun! Go rat and mine in enemy space! You can cheapfit ships for it and have some fun with it. Enemies seeing mining ships on d-scan aren’t going to think they’re targets when it’s in their own space. Hell, seeing Myrms or Ishtars or something on d-scan is going to look friendly too in their bearing space. Suddenly you have a great fight on your hands, after having made some isk for it in the first place.
There’s so much more you can do now that wasn’t possible with local running. So your bearing now requires slightly more work to be “safe”, so what? Nullsec was never meant to be safe, and that crap was boring for everyone including the bears. Adapt to the new normal and have some damned fun with it. Let nullsec be less predictable. Fly stuff you can afford to lose, bear enough in it that you’re isk positive if it dies, and just stop caring all that much when it does.
Or did people forget this game was kind of supposed to be a game, and not just another job where you make bank accounts larger, mostly for someone else further up the food chain?