LOL it is a bit of a nerd's spreadsheet game
I personally liked the flight and combat being more strategy than twitch because I like to win fights by thinking/planning but then I would say that because I am shit at twitch controls.
Thing is the really interesting stuff came from going to lowsec and 0.0 to PvP/pirate/Conquer and a lot of people never make it that far as it seems so inaccessible. That is CCP's fault of course and not likely to change.