Do you have statistics to back that up? I had the impression in wow that there were more pvp servers than pve server. I think most people want open pvp. I don't know what the big deal about it is anyway because you don't lose anything when you die, just an insignificant repair cost. But then there's the niche pvpers who also want to be able to loot the players they kill. But anyway my original post here was for the game devs, are they only thinking about profits or are they making a game they themselves would want to play? Because right now it sounds like it's all about the money and they just want to know what the most players want.
The developers are definitely not in it for the money. The developers are about creating a game that everyone can enjoy. Be it PvP, PvE, progress, mounts farming and so on. The developers have already played many MMO's themselves and want to do better what many MMO's do wrong or do not have.
Official statistics on the statements that Open PvP kills the genre I do not have, but in every MMO the majority does not like Open PvP, in every Facebook group you have this discussion, many simply reject it in principle.