Most ofthese changes should take very little time to put in and would help improve the game for the better.
1) improve shared bank let us put ships and houses into shared bank. this would help if your secondary pirate was low on gold and could not afford a decent ship, so you give them a hand-me-down ship. It isn't even an abusable system since most of the gear requires a nautical level to equip.
2) add crafting, fishing, gardening
3) add more companion promotion quests for storyline companions Example: Catbeard and Gracie have promotions, yes, but they cost gold to do. no actual skill or fun involved in that, and they talk a decent amount during the story which is unpleasing.
4) work on the chat filter there are many silly words that are blocked by the chat filter please change this fam
It's hard to believe that we haven't yet seen any of these Quality of Life improvements, even after years of members asking for them here.
For some reason, the developers thought that the early game needs more attention than retaining existing players by giving them some reason to log in and play.