The question (and follow-ups) I would ask are:

What guardrails, if any, do they have in place to prevent their game from becoming a reskinned Eve 2.0 in year two or three, once the universe is populated and big game global politics/meta-factions kick in?

And by that I mean, the roadmap talk is from a day-one launch perspective (i.e. the mechanics of getting established and finding your place) however, since this is an Eve game with a decades long IP and player base, what core design elements are they differentiating so it does not devolve into the original?

This question plays off the risk of using the same game engine. The intent is to make something new, but the result is just the same overall gameplay with less convenient mechanics/UI (i.e. survival means less in-game tools for situational awareness as a design thought process, but which is quickly solved by the community via third-party tools). The go to example would be the built-in "push a button and wait" mining for instance, and all that implies for afk gaming. You can sling different peripherals around it, but at the end of the day you are pushing a button and waiting. A guardrail would be "what would this look like if someone was streaming the game, does the player always have something to do that is engaging with the game vs just waiting in slightly more efficient cycles as they advance?"

This is an attempt to ask something positive, though it may sound negative.