It's all about the money Aeon. You see...the more players CCP acquires, the more money they make. New players won't be attracted to the game if they are always losing and dying. So how does CCP fix this problem you may ask. Well, they have two options, they could fix match-making which would place vets against vets, or they could hold the vets back. Guess which one they chose? lol. It started with the whole racial bonus thing. This allowed new players to spend a certain amount of SP and be productive on the battlefield in one particular role. Before this the vets were extremely OP as the could change between roles and be the best at every role they had. With this new racial bonus option, new players could stand a better chance of being just as productive on the battlefield as someone with multiple roles.

The next big jump was the introduction of bandwidth, which made it nearly impossible to run multiple roles. Vets used to start a match in their uplink suits, then switch to any other suit accordingly. Now with bandwidth, you have to run logi the whole match or another role, one or the other. In doing this, it limits the vets options or versatility and therefore helps the new players.

The lastest installment of "let's screw our vets out of what they grinded for", is Apex suits. Finally, the day has come where Dust goes complete noob. This is the mother load for CCP. New players are drooling over proto BPO's. They can compete with the vets a little better and make lots of isk, no worries. No skills required. And CCP gets money from those who decide to purchase these with aurum. OH YEA! Just awesome.

The last thing and most recent thing they have come out with is what your topic is about. Now, it will help with afk'ing, however...why ambush? Then after reading everything I've written above...it all starts to make sense. Just another way CCP tries to level the playing field without making it look to obvious, that they are intentionally restricting veteran players, like a boa constrictor they just keep squeezing. Do you know how to boil a frog? You don't boil the water then throw a frog in it...it'll just jump out. Instead, you put it on simmer and place the frog in the warm water, it enjoys it and doesn't realize it's being cooked until it's too late. They are doing the same thing to the vets. Little by little.