This is a very thourough and thought out post and I do agree with many points you have made and the fact that yes, this topic does get me worked up a fair bit.
It's just that the first thing I heard about the game was that its a persistant world without safe zones, and ever since then I have been building upon that within my imagination so I was shocked when I found out and worried after seeing what trammel has done to other titles.
I think that having a couple of safe moons aside from the safe starter zone is a good compromise, it will allow those types of players focused on the architectural side of the game to work on their own visions in peace and resource transport to these zones can also create traffic and PvP hotspots.
I totally have to disagree with this particular post however, one thing you have to keep in mind is that you are never a victim. I have played PvE roles in games before and yes occasionally you are killed, but you have to do everything in your power to make it more difficult for those people trying to kill you, not sit there and whine that you are being bullied. There will be some safe zones in the game and that is official, so those are available for your use.