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It's nothing about 'too dangerous' in high sec.
It's about investing the same isk, in the same structure giving the same reward.
For comparison, imagine if a ship only gave 3% per skill level to damage in high sec, but 5% in null. That is the same as what CCP are doing with these structures.

The differences made sense with POS because a POS could be pulled down in 30 minutes utterly avoiding any wardec risk, they don't make sense with these structures that are locked in space.
All it does is make the point that CCP themselves are breaking their rule of treating all areas of space as important, and are busy turning EVE into a theme park.

Actually this is kind of what I was hoping for, but otherwise, I really like the looks of these.

I have mixed feelings about that. I mean yeah, I looked at that and compared it to my current operation and my kneejerk reaction was, "Well, that's pretty ******* inconvenient." Buuuuuut....

I'm wondering if it will increase the viability of certain intermediate markets. For instance, if I want to produce T2 right now, it usually makes sense to build my own components. Given the low SP entry barrier, the only thing it "costs" me is the contribution to the system index and the opportunity cost of whatever else that character could be building (which is hard to quantify but, again, due to the low SP costs for production in general, basically amounts to ****-all in practice - if I need more slots, I'll make more slots). The market volume of T2 components is a sliver of their consumption rate.

In a medium EC, though, building T2 components at a comparable speed and efficiency would cost two rig slots. It won't be overnight, given the continued existence of POS, but in the long term, this model does require more specificity on a per-structure basis, and that could be a good thing over all, especially for some of the more overproduced market segments.

I know stations aren't going anywhere soon (this side of Xmas anyway)

I'm in null myself...but I was just expecting more, I should have known better after the citadel release.

Even less players will use the new structures if they do this

I'm looking at this from a industry+wormhole perspective, but the issue applies to anywhere in space but highsec. The Mediums aren't defensible enough to survive anyone who wants to hit it. Once a group sets their eye on it, it takes relatively little commitment from them to kill it. A small defender is going to either have to accept the loss of the structure, or start paying out significantly more than the structure is worth in order to higher mercenaries (who may still not be able to prevent the next timer due to how little effort it's going to take to rip through its defenses).

Get 5 Oracles and 5 Logi and laugh at any attempt to stop it that isn't an overload of ECM.

Have you seen the huge fights that come out over astrahuses? You call the enemy of the people attacking your citadel and offer them fire support from the structure itself, you'll have some new friends.

700m is cheap as hell too. I'll likely be throwing them around to bait fights for my alliance.

Also I was reading the fuel cost of the new modules.... 20 fuel / hour to research and copy, 20 to invent and 30 to manufacture something.... 70 fuel per hour to do what amedium tower does with 20. And for a fast reference the cheapest block (helium) cost 20k per block, making it 1.4mil per hour.

This count also ignore the onlining cost of these modules, at example on live a reprocessing module cost 5 blocks per hour but 320 to online and a market module the cost 40 block per hour need 2880 to online

How can a new players enter the industry gameplay when the basic structure with rigs and modules is going to be well over the 1bil cost, onlining the 3 basic module is going to cost probably 5k blocks (around 100+ mils) and at this point the new guy need to figure out what to do in the industry... while now to check how industry work in pos he can simply anchor a small pos, and with 10 fuel hour, no onlining cost, 30 minute anchoring and a cost under the 400mil he can check if he likes the doing industry or not.

I would be very discouraged by the upcoming system.

And please before saying "lol, go join a true man corp in null/low/wh" remember that everybody joined some high sec corp that hooked him / her to the game, and pushed him to move on other kind of spaces.

In my opinion to be a bit more "newbro" friendly remove the onlining cost (or reduce it by a great deal) from the industry modules.

Feel free to risk 10 manufacturing runs or 10 me runs and risk losing the lot if you want, I'll pass on that. Regardless of asset safety I'd rather not risk losing months of research just to have to start over...

I haven't read anything about Datacore generation which was mentioned as a possible service module for research laboratories. As the ECs are getting a Bonus to research are research labs still coming as a seperate structure or have they been incorporated into ECs now. If so, will the current system with research agents stay or is there still a plan to substitute the current system in the near future?