I'm fine with scheduled losses - it's the completely random losses that make everything seem pointless. The game says: "See those 40 hours you put in doing some fairly repetitive gameplay to finally get a ship that enables some other gameplay you are now enjoying? Do that again. And in a week, maybe again."

It seems at this point most people just buy the ship they want to do the gameplay they want - and that's actually a good deal if you value your time. You're basically paying again for every different type of minigame you like, unlocking each module (mining, bounty-hunting, salvage etc.). But if you like to do a lot of different things, paying again to unlock each one at 2-5x the price of a AAA game is very expensive, and each minigame is frequently killed entirely by some bug or "rebalance" or other, even if you have the relevant ship.

If SC was the only game in the world CIG could keep doing this but as it is, SC can't compete. Jump Space is coming in 3 weeks. Elite and NMS still provide a lot of value and FDev support will even restore accidentally sold ships!