I understand what your saying. Fair enough! 
Though, before launch, not to talk about how things tend to evolve, improve or get worse within time, the following statement seems a bit extreme for me.
It’s a null-sec recruiting tool (only). There’s zero benefit to the average player
We could see some sort of shenanigans happen with e.g. NPC stations limited corporation office slots. CCP did state that it’s designed as recruitment tool in mind but i doubt it will, atleast after some time, exclude other possible ways to be utlized.
What comes to mind is:
- Faction Warfare. I find the idea of having in-game tools to safely and reliably hire mercenaries very interesting. Not only Faction Warfare but groups like these can do things like these possibly via utilizing Freelancer Jobs.
- You can now offer Corporation Projects but Alliance wide. This will for sure see a lot use within groups. (Though i don’t understand why the existing Corporation Projects don’t simply have “Share with alliance” checkbox or something already…)
- I know this is a farstretched thing to say. Or maybe not. But the missions… Never ending madnes within the community. The outdated missions. Should they exist. Should they be updated. Should there be NPC missions at all or no. Maybe. Just maybe. This can, atleast at some point, work as a pre-pre-pre-stepping stone towards some kind of change regarding missions as a whole.