What this change is trying to achieve is to make independent worlds more wild by removing the overly-large lawful presence. The problem is the consequences of that RP, which are enforced by house laws, are so detrimental to the point that they've pretty much eliminated corporate warfare and quasi-lawful piracy within those border systems.
The motive is good however the implementation is going to lead to all sorts of headaches regarding lore and lawful RP. IMO I think it'd be a massive uphill battle to make border systems like O-3, Cortez, Hudson etc. truly independent as much as this change would like. There's just too many other variables that make this an impossibility.
However, if the devs did stuff like put lucrative mining fields in systems like Omega-9 or just systems that aren't border systems (O-7 is guilty here) it might encourage the corporate and quasi-lawful piracy that we desire, and yield all the benefits of this change without the negatives.