when you steal into a hostile - your opponent basically cannot defend or retal for himself, so its just up to you to interfere into it or not.. thus i would call interfering into a hostile as lame..

when you steal into an eowcf - your opponent can easily defend himself with training 1-1.5 tpa (dont come to me with bs as 'HEY I LOST ECON', i know enough of the game to know training 1 tpa wont make you lose econ), so its just up to the province in eowcf to defend himself or not.. thus i dont see any problem in stealing into an eowcf..

my opinion overall is; taking advantage of inability do defend is lame (ie. ongoing conflict) - but taking advantage of deciding NOT to defend (ie. not training tpa) is just fair..