Not too long ago, I had a buddy from work join Eve. An actual, real person, instead of a bot / multiboxer account. And he quit after about 2 months.
We did some stuff all around, I sported him some plex and some skill injectors, can’t afford a lot but did what I could, and it still wasn’t enough. There was fun doing content, especially highsec PVE and lowsec minor PVP with some thrown in exploration, he kinda got into it and things were going well. Until he hit a brick wall.
His ultimate brick wall was a 360+ day training queue, which would land him only about 1/3-1/2 way of the kind of stuff he wanted to do in the game. Once he busted out the calculator and checked the amount of $$ needed for skill injectors to get even over the major hurdle points of that que, not even the majority of it, then that was pretty much it.
Another words, the content he was interested in doing is inaccessable, due to ship/gear requirements limited by the skill que. Thats all there is to it, interesting content is king, and if players can’t get to it, then they go play a game that they can get to it. Its that simple.
I think if I didn’t have an old account and didn’t return in time before skill extractors got too expansive for me to buy, I would have been in the same boat, so I do understand it.
So my answer is no, I would absolutely not start from scratch. Nor do I recommend it for anyone else. I do recommend it for people who have Eve rich friends that can sport them somewhere between 30-50 large skill injectors to start off with and help plan out what to spend those skill points on. Otherwise no way.