Ganking is easy with no consequences?

I urge anyone who really believes that to try to pull off twenty pod ganks. I doubt they'd be able to succeed in half.

Ganking requires logistics beyond standard high sec play: warp-ins, scan alts, and stocking of equipment. Ganks don't happen by chance, they're deliberate and focused.

Ganking either requires luck or a lot of scouts because you are an easy target. Anti-gankers, KB whoring mercs, and randoms can and do shoot at you all the time. It only takes an Alpha ECM frigate to stop 1 to 3 gankers in destroyers.

The ganker is effectively neutered from all other high sec play. The SP is stuck on that character. Yeah, you can buy tags, but then you'll still likely have a ton of killrights against you for the next month. The only other pilot in the entire game with the same level of restrictions is a pod-killing low sec pirate.

The gankers that "make it look easy" are experts or FC'd by expects of the playstyle. It still takes considerable effort to succeed, much more than running missions or freighter hauling (all three which I've done extensively in my Eve career).

Most importantly, it takes little effort to become an unattractive gank target.

So little that I do not understand how a player can be in a universe filled with other people and either 1) not know ganking exists by the time they can pilot a freighter, or 2) are unwilling to do anything to protect their one billion+ ISK investment.