Kezrai_Charzai - Best user post in playing 15 years of EvE Online, your post linked at the bottom.
In 2007 I worked in a UK games studio with 120 employees ( working on PvP games ), during lunch break 20 staff played EvE. They all where miners and mined together to chill in their work break. CCP should fight bots 100%, it was and is the bots which mucked up the game + CCP trying to do other games, instead of working only on EvE Online.
CCP crushing fun in trade, fun in industry and fun in chilled player mining is the developers symptom fighting, the cause are ISK making bots since a decade and 10-100 accounts script automated multiboxers. Lets see how the game is in 2040. All activities in the game should be fun for all players.
P.S. I`m a station trader with 10-20 Omegas. I probably spent usd1000 usd with ccp over time.
I do not condone RMT trading or other CCP violations, but my guess is that if CCP would allow ISK sales via USD on their CCP website, where CCP would take a usd% transaction margin, active player amounts and CCP corporation income could ten fold. This could work as a good player experience if CCP would achieve a game state of 0% ingame bots, a dream 