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Might want to google that before you assume...

CCP is currently rewriting code that has existed since the server was switched on. That isnt trivial. Its not simple... and no you cant do it in a few months.

What you are literally complaining about is akin to taking your car to the mechanic for a complete engine replacement and complaining that it isn't done in an hour.

Question - will the Structure components and Structures themselves be constructable in POS assembly arrays, or only stations / outposts and eventually citadels?

All the Citadels are destructible. If you want to remove an abandoned citadel, blow it up. Since it's abandoned, it should be trivial.

It has already been stated that the old structures (outposts and POSes) are being removed. So any dead sticks will magically vanish.

Yet, dead sticks are everywhere, none is taking care of them as there's no real reason: free moons are everywhere, you don't need multiple POS for your jobs and why destroy the starbase control tower when you can simply destroy everything around it?

Now, a medium citadel present way more defenses than a dead stick, don't misunderstand me, I'm not afraid of a ghost station or of the fact it might or might not abandoned, I'm afraid we are going to have a lot more ghost citadels instead of the actual dead sticks.

If people are shying away from the grind of killing a dead stick, why should they be grind a ghost citadel? When I attacked abandoned POSses, I simply destroyed the research and assembly array, an ammunition assembly array has 50k total HP, a small control tower has a 10mil shield alone, and no, i'm not talking about the force field. After killing everything around the stick I looted all (if there was any) and waltzed away, since the tower at best can drop strontium, surely no fuel since it's offline.

The sheer amount of passive defense of a citadel, plus the fact it repair itself regardless anyone is around, plus the reinforcment timers, plus the fact that after all the grind it could be empty... because remember, thanks to the loot rules of the citadel, most of the assets in it are going to be sent to a station or another citadel, so you will loot only the mats of jobs actually running, but since it's abandoned you wont get any.

Which lead to my concern, is there going to be an inactivity timer that will make them capturable or that will unachor them?

I think it would be totally cool to probe (with combat probes) an abandoned citadel, not listed in the local citadel list, use the entosis link and make it your base. Since this kind of stuff create content, feel free to call it "recycled content".

Everything POS do Citadels to better.. Including dying.

The point Nevyn made is not really being widely discussed yet its very critical to why citadels are better than POS.
They will almost always be worth shooting. A stick is a stick.. its a time consuming multiday(if stronted) mess of utter BS.
A citadel is a loot pinata that gives a carrot at the end of the grind.

Dock your Cap ship in a large Citadel.
It's pretty easy.

I'm very glad to see I'm not the only one to think it that way.

In fact I've made the example of a control tower with offline anchored modules, as today there's no purpose of destroying the control tower.

Yet the whole idea of "you make profit out of it" doesn't hold up, because the gain compared to the amount of effort required is off.

If you go read the dev blogs, at the dps cap you need to nuke it for 30 min at least, and the dps is at least 5 battleship for the medium and 15 for the large. These are not my numbers, they come from the dev blog. These structures will go in reinforcment mode 2 times (for 24 hours i think) and pop on the third day.

Now depending on the vulnerability windows, assuming you are not sporting the top dps, you will have much likely from one to two hours to send it in reinforced mode. Is it really good money bashing for 3 nights, alone with your alts or with friends, for 1 hour or more each a citadel that might drop around 300 mil for a medium? Surely you wont have 15 battleship alts or 3 dread alts to bash a Large Citadel, so you will have split the loot. Also mind, these numbers are much likely calculated on "top dps fits", and I reiterate, you'll be dead if caught in pvp with a fit like that.

So for me, as today, if i'm going to see a citadel in my wh or null I'm not going to destroy it for the loot, but if I'm going to destroy it is going to be because it's a threat to me. If it turns out to be owned by an inactive corp, for all I care, it can rot in space forever, and for the money the combat anomalies / relic sites / data sites are enough of a loot pinata ready to be popped.

Can you quote the part I say those things, because I cannot find them in my post.

EDIT:
15 people / alts destroy a large citadel, dropping 4bil.
4 bil divided 15 people is 266 mil each, for 3 night of work of at least 3 hours of bashing, 80-90 mil a hour.
You do 70 mil a hour by running level 4 missions in high sec.

Also there's no worse scenario - read the dev blog on how the loot inside the citadel is handled - all the personal and corp assets get shipped to a station or another citadel, in wh space they simply get destroyed. You only loot the station equipment, which cannot be reprocessed as fozzie said, and raw mats and fuel that could be left hanging around.

Go read again the dev blog on how the loot inside a citadel is handled. You will see that unless you hit a loot pinata of a big corp with a lot of jobs running (so active, and I repeat we are speaking of inactive ones) or a citadel that had a lot of raw materials stored, what you get is pretty much streamlined.