Look. I have been in a shit ton of port battles and open world battles. I dueled people like @TommyShelby, @HachiRoku, @Silfarion, @Liquicity and had great fun in these battles. Is it that what you want to hear?
I want to play Naval Action with my clan mates and have a good time. Maybe we have some laughs in a mission, maybe we sail around the OW to GET SOME PVP - last time I did this, enemy decided to run, despite the fact them having double the numbers, btw.
And then there come some guys who think pvp is the only way and everybody else should bend the knee to their opinion. It's always the same, in every online game. PVPers want to create a game that fits their playstle and the rest is just carebears.