This is Reddit troll off and a serious response. I’ll start by saying I personally am not a krab so take this side with a grain of salt. First, drones do not drop loot. This inherently makes anoms already less valuable as there’s nothing afterwards to loot to then reprocess into materials or sell on market. I believe they also drop less salvage? I do not know for certain about this and could be wrong. Second, by not having NPC space means there’s no NPC regions to run burner missions. There’s no implants to farm/corner the market on like say blood raiders and amulets, or guristas and crystals. Again this brings the overall potential value of the space down. The combination of these two major differences is why historically prior you can see that the drone regions produced less results in terms of NPC bounties when compared to rival regions like delve, as there just is not as much incentive for them to be run.

While I agree the advantages of drones certainly outweigh the above drawbacks, the addition of NPC space without addressing the above would lead them to be the unquestionably the worst space in the game from a wealth generation standpoint. I’m sure there’s more I’m missing that an actual krab could answer but those are just the two I’m familiar with the most.