I don't pay a lot of attention to all this stuff, but what I do know and what anyone who follows the game knows is they are adding pvp content. That's a fact. If pvp was so unimportant they wouldn't have bothered with the new warzones, especially now since there isn't much new content.
I probably wouldn't just outright dismiss pvp.
Ps, to all the naysayers who say server population isn't declining, it is.