That is a false narrative…ironically spread by people who clearly survived being noobs. I was ganked and gate camped, both within the same week…yet I am still here and stronger than ever 5 years later.
The vast majority leave EVE because they are bored…not because they were ganked or whatever. Why are they bored ? Because nothing’s happening and what promised to be an exciting game full of carnage turned into watching a mining laser to Netflix.
CCP-FC keep on and on ‘fixing’ the wrong problem. It’s like the doctors of old who’d apply leeches…and if the leeches didn’t work, they’d apply more leeches, and more.