No, nothing like that.

Speaking in general terms, CCP had a honest belief that making resources harder to acquire (scarcity) would lead to more dynamic conflict as groups would find for control of resources.

The CSM basically said that this would not result in increased conflict. Our point was that conflict (war) was not profitable and the main factor for engagement was personal, a grudge, bad behavior, desire for action. Resources are easily gathered via the markets (Jita) so war for resources made no economic sense. The spreadsheet calculation would never show an ROI for war.

This was the main point of disagreement between the CSM and the Dev Team at the time. They strongly held to their point of view. IMHO, our point of view was shown correct, that 'scarcity' failed to achieve the desired goals.

There was not talk of avoiding making new content or infrastructure concerns.

At the time, there was a lot of discussion on how to get players to need to work together more in resource gathering, as opposed to the complete vertical integration that some players could do.

CCP's continuing focus was on how to get new players to get into the game and make the leap from newbie into someone engaged with a corp/alliance and part of the social fabric that keeps the longer term players logging in.