Not sure if coin was being sarcastic or not (probably).
But allowing Zoners to somehow become a massive military might (who appears weak inrp) within 20 years might be a mistake that has to be accepted, just as the oversaturation of systems in disco - there's always a way to fit that into the lore. You might be able to revert everything with a fresh, better designed map and better more logically balanced factions and trade routes, alongside server wipe, but since server wipe is not going to happen, then for the same reasons this essentially "zoner wipe" should not happen as well.
edit: More precisely, if I one day find my aquilon suddenly turned into an oversized 5ker it's gonna be no different than from the char file being corrupted due to some station that doesn't exist anymore (which is one of the reasons they aren't planning on reducing systems)
