Sassiee

It was not supposed to be. In the beginning it was made very clear that PvP was only one of the 6 pillars, and not any more or less important than any of the other pillars.
I.e. one of the main selling point of DU was "make your own game" and that included not having to focus on PvP as a main part of the game.

Slowly graphics have altered and improved.  For example they did a pass at the terrain to make it more pretty and then noticing how much it loads up especially in space they reduced the load to help with FPS drops.  I noticed every patch there are improvements in some areas.