erm, back to the point ...
because ed is a pvp game as much as a slice of bread with ketchup is a pizza. most serious pvpers would avoid it, the pvp community you see is a minority of diehard lovers of the game pvping against all odds. while that's admirable it is a lost battle. consequently there is no real significant pvp culture and frontier gets away with the pretense that they care, while actually just providing an environment attractive for gankers and griefers to have fun showing off their pink paints and poshl kits in their hard pve-grinded ships, which are of course far more abundant and are perfectly happy with this crap. that doesn't mean it is impossible to have the ocassional good experience, but skill based pvp in elite is mostly restricted to encounters where players abide to avoid (via prearrangement or tacit honor code) the truckload of nonsense sandro and his team have vomited over what was, at its core, an attractive and promising design, and that's if they are lucky with the network. that's why you have magic spells and potions, inflatable shields, ship class restrictions down the drain, etc ... and aimbots.
i'm surprised you haven't noticed this already. you should have seen this e.g. a year ago, this mess has even taken two full years to at least not be completely broken. it's still a superb game, but frontier is a theme park company. they lack the experience required for pvp networking and balance and they haven't bothered to hire it, it's good enough for them. ofc they also lack the experience in sensible combat ai (forumz having enshrined one particular developer is just local folklore and fandom, total nonsense). aimbotting is not only restricted to slf. any npc eagle, viper or asp can rail you on the head at 90 degrees. which is cheap but somehow still acceptable in pve where bluntly raising the bar is far more common and players can always adjust to a lower tier 'zone' and be happy.
sorry to bring these sad news but you'll have to adapt to what it is.
