I agree with you... in PVP.
Shall we assume instead that in PVE /Peace, since "vets" won't /cannot fire any shot to new players playing their shiny new game we can keep our XP and Rank and, in general, all we hardly grinded since we will take advantage of it only against NPCs?
I don't see, nor I have read until now any argument of reasoning in this topic that applies to PVE. In fact, in PVE happens the opposite: we "vets" as singles and/or via Clan are mostly helping new players with reals, doubloons, ships, upgrades, resources and tips, and we are very happy to do so, hoping one day we will have more effective mates to form battle groups against bigger NPCs fleets.
@admin please kindly reconsider wiping in PVE/Peace: it is not necessary, nor beneficial for new nor old players. Thanks for your attention.