Eve was created over 10 years ago. There are likely countless things in the game right now that weren't in the original plans.

Imagine standing in a half circle, with your friends, around your CEO with his carrier floating in the bay behind him, while you are having a voice comms corp meeting. (Seeing your inner circle that can be loaded safely in one CQ)

But 200 people won't fit inside a CQ. 6000 people can fit in teamspeak. Then it would be like the real political party where only the selected few are ever chosen to attend the fund raisers and the rest who do all the ground work never see the man in person.

Hence, the inner circle comment.

Do you really think that the leaders of any game alliance/coalition want to all log in, relocate to the same station, accept invites to enter a CQ more than once? I can understand the novelty of an alliance "inner circle" selfie shot once. But screw the effort when everything can be done via external applications much more efficiently.

Don't be silly, alliance leaders are too busy for this.
This image is for those smaller corps in an alliance. The ones that talk themselves up and go try start an alliance in the cold space of Null Sec.

WiS is dead because in the end CCP could not find any meaningful gameplay for that.

On the other hand there was an concept of leaving your spaceship to search abandoned space stations/mining outposts where you could find resources (for implants perhaps) and would run ino other players so you probably end up fighting over the loot.
That was shelved because it is/was? too big of a project to chew on for CCP. However with the new development cycle who knows if they aren't working on that right now and maybe, maybe we might someday board the new drifter stations.

I think they should have turned "world of darkness" into "Civilian districts" on the planet surfaces to extend the WIS into a third type of planet side game for Eve..

I have here in my hand my manual I bought with the game back in 03.. Guess what is mentions.. Oh that's right A living breathing Sci Fi world with walking in stations atmospheric flight.

That was the short version, the longer version that I have writen at an earlier point in time detailed that it would be a resource for CCP employees to draw upon when assembling interiors.
Hence, CCP would be automatically moderating, using, rejecting or sending back feedback for improvements.

people blaming everything on incarna seem to forget the millions of dollars and dev hours that was put into world of darkness.

If that money wasn't wasted on WoD and put into EVE I think things would have turned out very differently.

To answer, sure it has nothing to do with spacecraft directly.
As to the sims thing.....yep thats a good one, i would rather the one that might play sims spend their money here instead of on sims, but they need something to do first hmmm.

However back to the topic. It's likely CCP had ongoing development planned and budgeted and additional projects such as WIS were also planned and budgeted on a needs basis. It would have been pretty stupid to transfer developers from EvE to WIS given the two projects are completely different. Would have been much more efficient and problem proofed had they contracted additional staff as required for each stage of the development process.

Maybe that wasn't how they did it but unless you can show a official CCP post stating they moved EvE developers from scheduled EvE development, didn't replace them with other developers and used them on WIS and also used EvE allocated funds for WIS funding then you're simply making up shite.