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Care about new players is good. But it doesn't worth if one don't do enough to make experienced players wish to stay. Because new players become experienced through time. And for some cases this process can be very fast.

For those who have problems with adaptation there's nothing you can do to help.

Incoming flow cannot support forever if the outgoing one wasn't block.

Great to read the NPE is finally improved and being looked after with care.
When can we expect the update for the NPE, before or after fanfest

While I would agree in principle in sending rookies to lowsec or to PVP or whatever, you have supply/demand issues. Increase the supply of rookies in lowsec, and it suddenly becomes worthwhile hunting rookies in lowsec, significantly increasing their risk to beyond hopeless. Especially considering their level of progression at 20 minutes of having played the game.

Maybe have a secondary time delayed tutorial? Triggers when they hit a certain number of SP or something. Go over low/null survival strategies, then send them to low/null for various missions (courier missions of different levels, have them run a cyno, have them get a kill or die trying.) Maybe this secondary mission should also cover gathering intel about a group, and give them the tools to evaluate a corp to join. There's tons of good info that could go into a time delayed tutorial that wouldn't be appropriate for an introductory tutorial.

I recently went through the Gallente and Caldari NPE, and there are some goods and bads. The problem is that the goods aren't going to be apparent to a new player, and the bads are really quite bad. After finishing the Caldari NPE, I just quit the game and didn't even want to log back into my main.

I'd like to do a full write-up, particularly on the balance of the good and the bad in the NPE, but I don't have the time right now, unfortunately. My biggest issues were with the writing/acting, and with teaching players reflexes that will directly negatively impact their experience, like approaching before orbiting, and using the autopilot as a default for gate travel. From a writing and lore perspective, the NPE felt more like another team making fun of EVE than an actual experience in New Eden, and although I don't do any role playing, I have followed in-game politics since forever, read the novels, and I do appreciate the lore and world building side of the game. This NPE is like a totally different, cheap-knock-off, of that. I will post or record specifics on that later. I thought the acting issues were actor-specific at first but after going through the second NPE I realized, since the enunciation of a number of lines was identical, that the actors were encouraged to severely and obnoxiously over-act. This was probably the most viscerally annoying part of the experience, and the part that made me most want to quit and do something else.

What the NPE does (mostly) right is teach you the basic controls of the game, something that was mostly absent when I started, and I learned most of the gameplay through experimentation.