People with a "fuck you I've got mine" mentality, pvp that boils down to stomp or get stomped, metagaming, powergaming, empty systems, update schedule that rivals the legends of 4.86, everybody wanting to be the most powerful and biggest faction ever even though they're supposed to barely exist IRP. Nobody wants to be the everyman, everyone wants to be Commander McMillion Fleets, the gameplay boiling down to stalking the playerlist to log one of your million copy/paste ships to chase someone down for an interaction only for them to be a silent base supplier, being a power trader, sitting in empty space praying for someone to come by, or being one of said base suppliers. The game's just become boring. All negatives, no positives.
Last time I played was about a year ago. Had someone tell my character all about stuff they shouldn't have known and made up a BS story saying I did things that I never did. Logged out, deleted the game, gave my stuff away. If that's what passes for quality RP these days, I want nothing of it.