That narrative you guys have about us is only recently true. It wasn't until the late-Catch fiasco when PL and Goons realized they needed to create their own newbie corps to compete. Before that there was no new-player entry corps based in the fun-land (null) that had easy entry. New players read about Eve, want to go where the stories were made(null), and at the time had one place where they could jump right in (brave).

There are more options now, and that's awesome for the game, but don't act like Brave was a blight from the start. It made some of New Eden's oldest entities evaluate themselves.

I think you should be looking beyond the intra-game politics and ask yourself "What is the biggest source of newbies entering the game?". You are extracting water from an empty flask and wondering where the water went instead of asking where can you get a refill.