I just compare the game with 2022-2023 ish where I was one of the main drivers of mass activity on the server - making caps "realistic" with things like having to drop shields to be competitive, and having to be in a bigger fleet to be useful, and never knowing when you might get a huge sanction or ban if the voting staff decide to make an example out of you are why there isn't the will.
At the same time the RP community has been also decimated - folks use to just sit in a place and RP to no end, like Manhattan - I wasn't one of them really so can't comment on what happened there, but really the way the game is it feels like it's made for trading and big mixed fleet fights now
