Why is PvP so damn difficult?

[Markam]

Snub pvp balancing is just a matter of removing cheap tools. No-one is going to have serious gripes about losing to just guns, but people will get pissy about being SNAC'd by a bomber that's as small as and as fast as a slow VHF. Just remove all these extra weapons and leave it to the old fashioned guns-razor-cd. Simple is best.

I'm far more concerned with cap pvp. Cap pvp balance requires a lot more effort and thought, and unfortunately not much has changed in the last 5 years. Caps are where people with high ping & less snub skill go, and for better or worse, where the noobs go, their experience with caps will determine if they stay or go.

Has no-one any ideas of how to fix caps? Like, real ideas, not band-aid fixes. It was quite disappointing to log in to a cap fight where LN/BAF were 100% Liberty Battlecruiser and GRN were 100% Valor. This is 4.83 level balance, with clear "winner" ships guys. And please, get rid of capital ship cloaks, they're not being used for roleplay and its not hard to see this.

Can we not try a completely new formula for caps? I mean, something quite drastic;
Get rid of all weapons but primaries, mortars and missiles
Nerf gun speed/turret rotation
Remove shields, massively buff hull
Make battleships 40 impulse, Cruisers 60, gunboats 80
Cruise charge x10
And most important, make small/big irrelevant by making all weapons low range & make hulls mostly the same value. Am I the only one who hates turret steering from 3k Battleship vs Battleship? Its not surprising at all that its LBC vs Valor and not Libertydread\dunkirk vs Valor, there is literally no reason to pick a small battleship when a cruiser does the long range bore-fest better than a small battleship.

Note, I'm not demanding everything above be added, but just similiar concepts be brainstormed and tried in order to make cap combat fun.