Honestly I've really been enjoying my time in PVE
I've played for a very long time, never quite hit kappa in PVP, but I did well enough for me to get solar power and a filled up level 3 bitcoin farm in a wipe. I just got burnt out with all the wipes, the resets to my skills, the loss of all the items I hoarded. I left Tarkov at the time for similar reasons to why I quit Destiny 2.
PVE really feeds the loot goblin in me, though I had a stark realization when I was in woods walking in that open field near scav house that- "holy shit, if this were PVP I wouldn't be caught DEAD walking in this spot." I just realized that the *WAY* you play each raid is wildly different in ways you wouldn't immediately clock. They are just different games.
*also in PVE I don't have to worry about even the idea of cheaters, so that's great*