Hi. im not a very experienced nullsec player, so maybe this question is stupid and this will CONTAIN A WALL OF TEXT to clear my thoughts.

so i joined my first 0.0 corp/alliance a couple of months ago, and lived in drone regions, i always wondered why rats drop nothing, except u get some sentients ( which drop crappy bpcs) but the bounties where/are good , so i started the hunt for better ticks ( which bored me really fast) even salvaging turned out to be a waste of time, so i started to mine like an idiot, to pay for my pvp ships and pve ships and all that good stuff ( plex, injectors...u know the deal)
due to circumstances, i left corp/alliance , to join a friend in his corp which is located in fountain...so i saw my second 0.0 region in my carreer as capsuleer.

and it was like " dafuq is going on here? im getting spacerich in no time" i belt ratted cause like i said before the anom ratting bored me to death, and it was crazy, rats drop modules and bpcs and all kind off stuff , i usually reprocessed for minerals, a lot of hauler spawns, even more minerals, a lot of shadow sentients( or sentines cant remember) compared to drone regions sentient spawns, and those shadows dropped very nice stuff ( my best was a snake implant for 1bil) so i made about 300mio a day with simple belt ratting up to 1.2 bil a day ( drop luck) .

but me and my friend werent very happy in fountain ( very small corp/ally, bad organistaion, really bad pvp/homedeff) so we both moved back to the alliance i was in before, in drone regions, because better organized, more people and a lot of other factors...my friend then started complaining, why the hell do rats drop nothing , which lowered his income down to 20% of what he was used to in fountain ( which was his first nullsec experience also ). so he also had to run for the bounty ticks and the 10/10 escalations bookmark selling .
we also checked out gurita space , cause pretty close to our pocket ( but not safe anymore for us) and realized those pirate rats also drop stuff, like in fountain ( serpentis)

i asked a lot of people why drones are so less worth ratting, compared to other null regions...i didnt get a clear awnser from anyone, cause nobody knew ( except we was told rats used to drop mineral stuff back in the days)

so now my main question is WHY the hell evry other faction region is dropping **** like crazy+bounties enabling players to farm a ton of isk in no time, whilst living in drone regions is either minign like an idiot, or ratting hordes all day for 10/10 sales or doing evrything at once ( mining, ratting, exploring) to get at least some isk ( compared to other regions its still a joke) is there a reason im not aware of? is the loot table broken? are the escalations better? i dont get it. is it because of those chips for soe ships? ( which still is no good explaination) what the heck am i missing here? dont get me wrong im happy where i live now ( drone region) i like my corp, i like my ally, its all well organized and stuff...but the low income compared to fountain f.e. is a real bad joke. ( its stil 100 times better then highsec though)

anyone can explain this to me? :)