Actually the best thing would be removal of isk bounties/mission isk payouts. Make ratting as much about harvesting resources for a player driven economy as every other profession. Missions would be about getting loyalty points to spend on items plus whatever was dragged in and incursions would actually be run like the loot-dropping boss encounters they were meant to be instead of rat-chaining in highsec.

No more isk faucets to inflate the economy, isk truly becomes a currency and the capitalism game is actually capitalism because people compete and fight over control of resoures and not the biggest money-trees.

You totally care about having a player driven economy, you just don't always realize that that is what you're encountering. It's a way to automatically balance professions. If something is hard, less people do it, so the profitability of the products it creates goes up until it finds equilibrium. If something is easy, more people do it, the profitability dies. It's self regulating.

On the other hand, when CCP just sets a fixed profit level for something, it inevitably gets out of balance. It turns out to be easier than they thought it would be and it becomes imbalanced by being too rewarding- like incursions for example, and since it has a fixed payout, nothing brings it back into balance with the other professions. Or it turns out to be harder than CCP thought it would be and then nobody does it anymore because it isn't rewarding enough to justify the difficulty/time/risk. When the reward goes through the player driven market those problems automatically get smoothed out.

Also, I think you're falling prey to the standard "my way of playing the game is the best" assumption... Different people like playing the game different ways. There are tons of interesting things you can do in eve that don't involve pvp. Maybe you don't like them as much as some other guy does, maybe you haven't learned enough about those professions to get why they're fun. You aren't the only person in the universe. Your preferences are not universal. As long as you enjoy the way you're playing it, that's great, but that doesn't mean the next guy won't have more fun playing it a different way. Don't just assume that the only options are pirate or miner. There are like 1,000 different professions in the game. Some of them only a handful of people have ever mastered.