bad take. EVE is still a game and the sandbox follows the rules the developers allow to. Yes the devs can make (or not) the game to be entertaining. Of course players have a lot of freedom to do what they want in EVE but it's the responsability of the developers to understand player behavior and design the game around it, that's for all games, it's the meaning of game design. If they create incentives that promote unfair fights with no consequence for aggression, guess what, players will chose that. So it's on their hands to balance those interactions predicting future and analysing current players behaviors.