PVP is as essential to this game as your ship. If you don't want to PVP, go try Subnautica. The "Chests of Sorrow" on these boards are a vocal minority and do not represent the vast majority that love this game exactly the way it is.
No one is forcing you to play this game.
Giving people the option to "skip out" on the fear of turning in chests, or removing the fear of masts on the horizon removes a great fear from this game: The fear of people taking your chests.
