Honestly Snak either dont realize what the pobs mean for their factions, or realize and want to see both the pobs and their factions gone, or have a personal grudge with someone or some group...
In a real siege against a core 4, any siege crew that deserve such name have ppl circling pobs in snubs to attract its fire, if the WP's are well placed, or find their blind spots and all BS's sit their asses there, WP arent by any mean really efficient against "Wesker level" pob demolishers;
On other hand, 4 well placed WP's prevent a core 3 mining pob from getting erased in few hours by any lol group that decided to attack it "cuz lol why not", thus giving defenders a chance of logging. Is already bad enough that after pob owners realized that they could use NEMP's on the bases defense, it been changed and the billions used on em been wasted for nothing cuz (as always) the lazy cancers cried about...
As area deniers, also they arent decent, as for example ive used to mine next to an pob hostile to me in Lolberty, just needing keep straffing while doing it, as most WP's used for pob defense are cerbs, they mean 0 treath to any experienced snub player (finest example was me being alive in unarmored miner, anyone that met me in snub combat know im useless in a snub *too*).
As i see, one person is trying to change the entire system because his personal grudge against someone/some group, i do hope that devs end this long going "trend" of messing with the game to please some "once-permabanned-guy" that cry about.
And finally, i would like to (again) praise @St.Denis that as usual have lucid and logic arguments.