The biggest thing that keeps so many from getting into EvE is how long it takes to be able to skill up and fly say a battlecruiser properly. Most don't really want to be flying around in frigates for ages, even if they ARE useful in fleet ops and what not.

That is in my opinion one of the big flaws of EvE and I think if they accelerated skill gain somehow to get people into those slightly larger, cool ships sooner, the game would grow much more.

That said, I think if I were to give eve boxing a shot I'd have fun just flying a swarm of frigates ;p