It’s pretty silly, from the perspective of ‘real life,’ that we cannot designate coordinates to fly to. That being said, and I’m pretty new at this, so please don’t flame me to death, eve seems to operate as a series of forced choices. You can fly in all this space, but not really. You have to warp to a gate, use a gate to get to another system, and then warp within 100k of a celestial, if you don’t have a bookmark.
The ‘vastness’ of space, in eve, is illusory, in order to make it possible to catch us at all. I’m not a pvp player, and I doubt I ever will be. I try to take some defensive measures in my exploration, but I can’t beat you alpha-striking me down, when I’m fit for exploration or pve.
If you let me select, a point, like I can send my probes to, trust me, I’m gonna love this, because space is vast, but it doesn’t make a good game-play mechanic to acknowledge that.