In the experience of EVE. There’s room in EVE for people who don’t want to PVP. If they want to dock up during a war, that’s fine, as long as there’s reason for them to come back after.
And, as someone who’s built a 1:1 scale Minas Tirith in Minecraft, by myself, on survival mode (building Mindolluin was the really annoying part)… ,!, ,!, Minecraft players are EVE players too.
This is a sandbox game. Yes, most of the activity has PvP applications, and PvP can happen anywhere, at any time, but that doesn’t mean players need to be forced to engage in wars. If they’re willing to accept ganking, if they’re willing to accept suppression of PvE activities and then come back, then great.
It’s the ‘not coming back’ part that’s actively hurting the game. People who aren’t coming back are people who aren’t developing into PvPers. They’re people who aren’t out there in space, making every aspect of the game just a little bit richer by their activity.
You want to insist on a niche game being some kind of exclusionary little hellhole where only ‘the right people’ can come in, then you’re pushing for EVE to shut down if you can’t have it the way you want it. It’s as stupid and short-sighted an idea from you as it would be from us (and yes, I know that my projected ‘what happens if CCP does X’ included a scenario very much like that. Those actions would be stupid and short-sighted. That doesn’t make them unlikely, under those circumstances).