That sad truth about DCUO, or the sad truth about capitalism? No business can survive if it has to pay it's employees but doesn't generate revenue. Therefore, like every business on the planet, it's primary goal is a self-sustaining cycle of revenue that pays employees, which in turn continue to work on things that produce revenue. As a lore-driven PVE MMO game it doesn't have the benefit of profiting off community work like Roblox or Fortnite, and it has never been a PVP-centric game that ever had a chance to compete with mobas or battle royales on the PVP game space, so it has to do what every old MMO does: focus on what keeps the game alive. And that has never been PVP.