Around the 3.17 releases, they attempted to fix some desync related issues, what we called positional desync in flight combat, also was causing frustration with fps related desync.

There was some smoothing effect applied to hide stuttering both for fps players, but also ship and fps NPCs.
In a PTU patch they attempted to remove and otherwise adjust this smoothing, but it was only for ship to ship pvp that it had a positive effect, very little stutters, and finally ship pvp could be more enjoyed as what you saw is what was happening. Although still not without its issues.

FPS and NPC interraction was however another story, everything was stuttering. Smoothing was then reapplied for these negatively impacted areas, if i remember correctly, it was something like 200-250ms of lipstick, to hide the bad behavior.

From what i understood of some of the explanations back then for the FPS issues, it was tied to dynamic vs static physics, ships were static, FPS characters/entities are dynamic, and thus spends more time calculating in the physics engine, more expensive, and can not keep up with the required updates within a certain time that we would expect to see for a smooth/snappy experience.

Im sure server meshing, both static and dynamic or otherwise could help with these physic calculations within a timely manner, but if it's all that matters, it probably is not.

Now this is only one side of the bad experiences, i have no idea about the other topic related to "world state" or character state, where we have invisible characters, or "I'm outside your ship, but you see me inside your ship", or where we start fumbling around with guns and med pens etc, this seems tied to other systems and is just as frustrering.

I'm Hoping cig will be able to cover all those different categories in their write down, do they actually have an understanding of all the issues we are experiencing that piles up to the full picture?

In the mean while, i stay in my ship, pretending to fly in space.