The thing that most gets me is when something is not an option in order to do something else.
In RL it would be like if I MUST play a round of poker to get from A to B. Space is not solely its own area of the game that you visit because you want to. It is literally the space you must go through to get from one planet to another.
Also, even in poker bets are called to the same stakes, or raised. Not so in EU space. I believe it to be wrong AND sloppy in its implementation. IF MA changed it so that all players were just that, namely players and not so easily labelled, then that would at least be a step forward.
But as I and many others have said, forced participation in order to switch planets is a big turn off, and probably plays a role in the non-growth of the overall platform.
On the second quoted paragraph: it is not even claimed that a glitch was used in this case. Heck, if speeding up were to have been used I might even almost cheer that the next part of the battle could start more quickly....