I certainly hope that CCP's ambitions lie in this direction, the disconnected nature of separate matches is certainly at odds with EVE Online's fluid open world in space. On the other hand, I think that if this were technically within CCP's grasp, we would have seen an attempt at it already because it just makes so much sense. Instead, we see an incremental struggle just to fit more people on existing map sizes.

So do I think this is a matter of willpower on CCP's part? No - I've never heard any talk that idealizes lobby matchmaking as a superior system to an open world playfield. In the mean time they reach bigger step by step - albeit slowly. Perhaps we'll see a breakthrough like this if Dust moves to another platform with better hardware support, I don't really know for sure. Either way, I want CCP to continue to dream big.

PVE seems much MORE achievable even given the current performance state, and I personally know of many important individuals inside CCP right now that are very much interested in bringing some of those "trailer moments" to life. Beyond that I run into an NDA of course, but I think its important you know that the dream is very much alive inside the development studio. I think you're OP faces more of a challenge against time than anything else. Thanks for sharing!