Only one reason why so-called "pirates" would want to "ply their trade" in high sec - it's EASY.

Here two type of people who pvp, a true warriors who fight vs combat ships druing war dec, or on low sec, or null space, second type a carebear who think they badass because he can kill other careberars who using miningbarges, also no balzz ******* bunch of idiots who fell mighty while destroying poor mining barge, even no profit form kiling them only empty killmails statistic with some value but infact 0 profit. Some people say, we do it for lulz but this is bulshit, here no fun at all while kiling carebear who blow in 5sec to two destroyers.

Fit tornado go to jita area in weekend while a lot people, scan industrals, you can earn bilions depending your luck... Still better solution to get money than hunting for 3 strip miners and mlu, and much easy.

Aoede Mining Laser Upgrade

Gameplay isnt fine, Hulks have to give up all defensive ability to gain a little more yield.

To be fair, Hulks have a stronger tank than some HACsGǪ

Only once in my life I have seen 3 destroyers fail to kill any Mack. For failfit ones 2 are plenty.
10 x 2.5M ships to kill a supertank Hulk will net 1+ intact salvage + 10 x their own wrecks + half Hulk mods. The final balance is still positive or about zero.

If you kill too many hi sec miners, however, the RMT botters will move to 0.0 renter space, where nobody will report them and much less kill them any more.

Since gankers are at least as lazy as miners for the most part, they won't crack out the probes until long after the last hulk has been cleared from the belts.

Now, if only there was a new PvP feature, where a mining corp can forfeit concord protection in exchange for being able to enlist a merc corp to defend them as allies... THAT would be hot.