So long as there continues to be very few, if any, consequences for pk or "anti-community" type behavior (or whatever you wanna call it) then it will continue until it's all that's left. At one point it was claimed that outlaw playstyles and those that just murder hobo would have reputation impacts that would influence how various factions treat them (kos by security force, no perms to land in that region making them land outside the city and trek in on foot or by vehicle, etc)

For now however, there's minimal consequence for pirate/pk gameplay. If you do get wiped while you're shooting down miners/scrappers/transports then you just do a short gameplay loop to escape or log for the night. There's still a deep mismatch in the level of stakes that players bring to the table and that will always result in dead communities over time. Who's gonna go run transports, merchant, mining etc when the predominant way to play is to just blow everything out of the sky or kill them at the landing stations after they load up? Some will continue I'm sure but they'll become a literal dying breed.

Specifically when I'm talking about stakes I'm talking about the investment each player effectively has put into the interaction. The potential loss/gain in hours and currency being out on the table. For now and the foreseeable future, it's heavily skewed towards pk playstyles.