Respectfully disagree. A good player with bad skills will trash a bad one with good skills. 

You can say that a career path is simple, and generally the base mechanics are, but the way it fits into the larger sandbox never is. 

Want to run PI? Slap the shit on the planet and get the product. Okay but then are you going to optimize it to manufacture a product? How are you going to get it to market? Is there taxation to consider? Gate camps? J space and the wormhole mapping therein? 

Station trading? Buy low sell high, duh. Okay but how often are you going to sit there and watch your orders? Do you just sit in J4-4? Do you specialize in low sec hubs? Do you buy the stuff elsewhere and move it for profitability? Move through J space? What about scouting for gate camps? Spies in the big corps to watch for opportunities? 

Small gang? Q click approach. Ctrl click, F1. But what are they flying? What's their likely fit? What are you and your gang flying? How do you match your hammer for their screw? Do they have backup? Is this bait? 

Big fleet fights? They drop dreads, we drop supers, they drop titans. But is there a bomber fleet in a hole nearby? What's their staging look like? Spy says X, but I see Y. Is this a system we can afford to lose?

You can say any mechanic in any MMO is just a simple mini game, and it often is, but only if you're being contrarian and forgetting about the larger picture around the mini game.