It's odd to see people be in favour of keeping these platforms that can be used for toxic gameplay that is demotivating others from logging.
With POBs having ten times more HP to prevent two-hour sieges from happening, and weapon platforms being indestructable now, they should go. Use player ships to defend POB if it comes to that even though POB sieges are rare occurrence and usually are meant to destroy new POBs that pop up in unwanted places. The issue is that platforms work as area denial in this already player-dwindling game where every interaction should be treasured and emphasized to make this game what it is - multiplayer experience.