Let me respond to your series of short, unsubstantiated statements with a few of mine, similarly unbacked by any evidence and expected to be believed straight away: Hessians are not barely holding on for resources - they outnumber Corsairs in Omega systems and have a good income, Order Osiris balance has nothing to do with the lore but more to do with the fact that the ship itself was just far too strong - now it isn't (but yes maybe it will get some kind of buff, meanwhile the rest of the Order ships are more than fine), Zoner ships are meant to be colony ships not warships hence they suck at fighting, independent pirates are fine as they are. Transports would be mostly fine were it not for cloaking pirates, and this will be fixed soon.
The statement that "woe be upon the players for they are getting screwed over" is probably older than my registration date on this forum. Different people who can't be bothered to log to get their factions active blame their own failures on the devs/admins, and offer nothing constructive in any thread like this except their apocalyptic wailing about how bad they have. And that's the truth of it.
Meanwhile, official factions that care about their lore instead of crying about it submitted their suggestions, and all of them were reviewed by dev team and most will be included. So can we end these lies already?