Exactly. It's not "completely suicidal" to do so, you just need to become more cunning and far far more patient in making attacks and evading attacks (and riding out those attacks when they inevitably come).

...all part of the fun, and all part of accepting that the 'game' becomes far far harder as the hunters become the hunted.

I would only wish I could sit aground for half a day, then ride out the tidal currents with motors off in silence a la Herbert Werner. Don't suppose the game engine could ever be modded to accommodate these such things (?)

Not as far as I am aware, but you would be subject to drift over a longish time period.