Wow that's crazy, "After over 500,000,000 in trade, owning everything this game has to offer" you did that already, I am not sure if I am amazed by or sad for you, both I think but I honestly think you have burned out, I have never been involved in a beta before, I did have a "short wobble" in late beta due to playing so much in what was a beta not a game, a few days off helped, you have paid for this game if you are not enjoying it right now take a break but please do take another look in a month (or 6 if you need a longer break), you have nothing to lose other than a little time.
I have a type 6, & cobra almost all A rated & 6 mill CR, playing since PB and didn't wipe at launch.
Don't worry about us "when that game presents it's self.. the lights will go out" I doubt that will happen soon, with the low cost of the P2P infrastructure, planned DLC to be bought by many (and the cosmetics shop etc) the game will be OK for a long while, FD have made enough to keep it all going for a fair while, I believe with kickstarter & sales its > £12 million, we will find out in a few months when their figures are published.
I hope to be playing this game in many years time and enjoying it even more than I do now when we have much more content, I am in no rush to do or get anything & I am sure if in 10 years time FD said they can no longer support the game enough fans would cover the server costs (or host it) to keep the game alive.
"Clearly player interaction and communication was an after thought.", I don't agree, could it work better yes ofc but they are working on it, again give it a couple of updates, take a look on the forums every now & again but do come back, I really think you might be pleasantly surprised.