gonna have to disagree with you on that.
repetitive? tell me what PvE activity isn’t repetitive?
boring and unrewarding is subjective. its not boring to seemingly a lot of people that participated and as far as rewards go, its pretty good isk per hour and the LP is a bonus to things people may/may not want, but even if you dont want the LP its just extra stuff to sell on the market.
and im going to have to disagree with you on that “devoid of life statement”
with maybe the exception of frigate-destroyer pvp, not as many people partake in abyssal pvp as it does get fairly expensive in the long run compared to what you win. so anyone doing abyssal arena your not likely to see too commonly anyway. as for the mining sites, there are tons of gated PvE instances so that arguement is fairly invalid due to the fact so many PvE related things are gated in some way anyway, like DED’s or missions for example.
although the player cap does hinder the pvp aspect of it if its in low sec or null sec but from what i can tell from other players that have done the low sec side there are plenty of pirates just waiting to kill you regardless anyway so there isnt a lack of PvP, it’s just that its mostly a high sec thing (just like how the first version of RW was) although CCP has opened it up to low/null depending on the area/event going on.
I simply just dont agree or see your point in anything you said because i see other wise.