Mining chat is where you go to make human connections outside of a corp. It’s kept people playing eve, and helped people get through tough time irl.
The rep it has is earned, but it’s not as bad as it’s made out to be.
That being said, if ccp wants to squash it, we need another channel. Player channels are subject to player bias and moods. official channels arent. I’ve seen it suggested that we all go to discord, but why? EvE is about community, and community shouldn’t be pushed out of the game into 3rd party services.