That was the original intent, back when their guns could blap subcaps, their DD was AoE, and they had drone bays.
Then they became horribly proliferated to the point where people were camping gates with titans.
Now titans are balanced by the fact that they're much less useful in any combat scenario except blapping carriers and dreadnoughts or structure shoots where you don't want to be forced to stay put for 5 minutes at a time.

you have to actually have a point for someone to dispute it

keep telling everyone how titans balance out nullsec industry

and how they should be used for pve

keep telling everyone how titans balance out nullsec industry

and how they should be used for pve

When alliances put up a half-assed fight against an invasion force and then just give up, that's a pretty obvious indication that space really isn't all that worth holding.

So no, it's not enough. Maybe you should try our shoes on for a change before you start telling us what the problem is.

It's enough for someone, or there wouldn't be people taking the space.

I've done enough "game property holding" in my time to know that no matter the in-game rewards sometimes people just get tired of it.

Sometimes holding onto the bits gets too close to reality, and people decide that reality has better rewards.

I came to EvE as a bittervet from other games, I know the symptoms, and the cure is to not take it so seriously. Just enjoy the game already. That's what it is there for, and if you aren't having fun you need to do something else.

I still don't understand how someone could fail to see the point as consistently as you do.

Can't argue with that logic, because you're just attacking me instead of disputing my point.

Shiny, indeed. Like certificates did for training.

This path will lead us to enlightenment. A land without any concern for balance, rewards far in excess of what the risk should imply.

High Sec

I source my Zydrine either from scanning down Grav sites, found one yesterday with Jaspet in it (0.5 system), or refining mission loot.
Research needs you just need to setup a POS, boring part is grinding the rep

So you can get around both those issues, but it can be time consuming.

What is high sec?

They moved L5 missions to lowsec because they were "too easy" in highsec and the payouts were too high, the players didn't follow, the L5 missions are still there and run by a few skilled and risk tolerant individuals.

Lowsec and NPC nullsec missions pay considerably more than highsec missions, yet people still stick to highsec.

Capital ships were moved out of highsec because they were too powerful for controlled space and people should need to accept some risk to play with the best toys in the game, still most players stick to highsec.

The best ores and mining opportunities are only available outside highsec, yet the highsec belts are stripped by downtime on a regular basis.

Edit:
Had I been CCP, I'd have put the "top ISK" goal in low sec and not in hi sec or null sec. That would give safety and ability to casual play as a goal for hi sec, empire building to null sec, "own home" to WH and ISK making to low sec, that is a fair distribution of goals.

Maybe they need to deploy full WiS, but only in player-owned stations ;)

Sovereign nullsec gives you ownership and control of the biggest player-ownable shinies in the game, but there is a price for the access to that content. You get to retain highsec access, but your own space is a pale imitation of NPC space.

That's backwards. Surely it ought to be

"You risk losing that space, but your own space is greatly superior to NPC space"

"Game balance" as you intend it is something done to traditional, linear games, where you basically know "how it must work" in advance.

this is utterly stupefyingly wrong: traditional linear games are the ones that can best allow unbalanced gameplay

it is multiplayer competitive games where players play against each other that game balance is at its most important

i don't know if you could have been more wrong without actually being Buzzy Warstl

How is it not balanced?

T1 items need to be produced at a rate appropriate to the number of people using T1 items.
POS give capabilities other than raw T1 production that *are* restricted in highsec like you suggest production needs to be.

"It's the best at everything" isn't balance.

That's backwards. Surely it ought to be

"You risk losing that space, but your own space is greatly superior to NPC space"

this is utterly stupefyingly wrong: traditional linear games are the ones that can best allow unbalanced gameplay

it is multiplayer competitive games where players play against each other that game balance is at its most important

i don't know if you could have been more wrong without actually being Buzzy Warstl