Lack of stacking penalties in this game have always been stupid and a contributing factor to the rather bland fitting options  (only overshadowed by the lack of module variety)

Stacking makes for boring PvE fits. Stacking makes for boring industrial fits. Stacking makes for boring PvP fits in some cases, though its less of a factor here than other places in the game.

Gropho has many many advantages. Yes, its not suitable as an all out brawler, BUT:

1. Its able to shoot over terrain that would block turrets.
2. Compound factor one with ridiculous range (Up to 1000m with certain fits) gives huge possibilities for mitigating damage at range.
3. When the missile salvos fly into the air at long range from many grophos, your opponent may only take cover after it is too late.
4. Can switch short and long range ammo without changing equipment. No other race can do that.
5. Has a huge shield buffer tank just by equipping a single module.
6. Does reliable damage to smaller targets
7. Lock time bonus in a blob... holy *** this is good.

Need I keep going on?

Long term solution: Remove mobile teleporters altogether from the game and fix the hopelessly broken travel system including aggression mechanics in relation to travel as well as the "dance" of tackling.

Pretty much this. There has to be a better way. Maybe once the NPCs hit their boundry, they fall back while still attempting to attack the player?

Can't tell if trolling or serious. Did you read what I wrote

In EVE you have other options to defend yourself as a miner, including using a barge with a battleship sized tank (Procurer/Skiff) in trade for a little bit less yield. Its simply not feasible to suicide gank these barges.

This particular issues is different though because some of the mobs likely will have ewar and can't be permatanked because of the way shield mechanics are linked to your accumator as well as other factors such as neuting, lack of shield bonus on the Rivaler and how terrible active armor tanking is. So you can't escape and you can't permanently tank them.

As for having solo players on alpha defend themselves with combat accounts, good luck on that Zoom. You see this kind of stuff already happening by some of the larger more organized alpha groups, but that's not who this type of training is killing. Its killing the smaller group and solo alpha dwellers (the only hope of your entire game after steam). So yeah, I wouldn't dream for everyone behaving the same Zoom. You have different groups of players that all act differently, you need to consider that in balancing the game.

The intersection of tackle and tank when it comes to small gangs is one of the least thought out aspects of combat in Perpetuum.

Unless you have a neut troiar/jam cham, small gang tackling with light bots is not a dance where you see if you can survive holding someone down long enough for the rest of your squad to take them out. Instead, it basically devolves into "Did you bring a troiar/ictus/ecm that is not countered by enemy ecm/supression?" If yes, you can break tackle, otherwise just sit there and prepare to die. Ewar here makes numerical differences between groups even more pronounced because the bigger group can always be sure it will hold tackle.

Imagine the way they have things setup they can't move zones without restarting one of the servers. So realistically they would have to use downtime to put less zones on the same instance. Sounds nice, but it won't work as well as designing everything to run in the cloud from day one.

Everyone forgot about Dev Annihilator

I think the problem here Celebro is that the average new player wont see see the game at T4 LWF speed before leaving. Even with Navigation removed, Brow made a thread about it.

There have been many topics and discussions about this. In my opinion, mandatory modules are bad. Some people disagree. Ultimately, the devs have higher priorities than addressing module ballance at the moment.

I hope they take your feedback into account because I know for certain you are not alone in thinking the game is slow by default.

EDIT: typo + clarification