I still experience plenty of pvp and have good reasons to advance my gear.  On the other hand, I wish PA had taken less drastic measures, such as timers on one sided deccs.   I guess the bullying was really bad 

People would laugh about black star armor being a noob trap. But the real noob trap was getting anything more than tuvala gear. PA has tricked everyone into thinking trillions of silver worth of gear was worth it. The truth is the game has always been this way. There never has been anything at the end, just more of the same that was at the beginning. It's an endless treadmill of doing the same thing over and over. Which is why they gated it so most people never reach it to see.

The bullying wasn't bad the crying about bullying was bad.  

I suppose that seems correct if you didn't experience it.  I think PA relied on data not hypotheses.  

I think we all know that "data" is only from very dead region

I suppose you would think it was bad if you thought that bullying can happen in a video game.  No one was ever hurt, thus they cannot be bullied.

Well I hope you don't have to experience what some of us have.  Have a nice day!

gear progression is non existing at some point unless you grind 2 years. Anyway i would love to see more pvp content

Honestly, pvp as a whole feels dead. Its either grief or be griefed. DFS barely exists due to family-wide karma, and the mindset now is feed people to mobs which only made the pvp scene worse. Removing the ability to dec players drastically caused a surge in toxic encounters since if they want spot, the best action to take is either grind over, grief or feed to mobs. And while its not so much a problem at the highest ends of grinding, that PA and many of the people ive talked with that are ambassators dont see this as a problem is just disheartening. It really feels like the pvp that many aimed for that really made this game feel special is just gone now. Yes aos and rbf and nws exist, but it doesnt feel good. 
-AOS is basically meta or lose
-RBF sucks when dp memes are so dominant, and most of the people in these dont do anything else (thats fine, but going in thinking you want a little pvp before grinding or something often ends up making people not want to grind at all after being stomped by the 10 cho players with 40gs on you that you cant even half-hp at 710gs)
-NWS being capped removed the want to get gear

I might be alone in this, but the thing that made BDO feel special above all else was the combat. And while its fun getting to grind and do all the cool moves and play fun classes, the pvp was where it really had impact. Now that its gone almost entirely either due to caps, openworld pvp being dead, or just by meta-whoring in AOS it really doesnt feel good to grind or even play the game. I could get more gear, but why do i wanna push gs to still get wrecked by people more carried? Or to grind spots with less money/hour than zones already out? Or even worse, grinding out gs only to realize that my class literally cant grind the new zones since evasion is what im supposed to build, but ill be nuked at Ulukita zones if im evasion, and die anyways if i do dehkia if i go DR. 

The game lost what made gs really have impact in my opinion and im of the same mind as Shaky on this one, the big push to grind is gone.