I can appreciate not wanting to encourage or reward the approach / attitude you're aptly describing @Markam, but I think the transparency of publishing kill numbers so that we can further discuss and analyse the imbalance is a more inscrutable choice than burying them.
In the spirit of staying precisely on topic, other posters have been right, I think, to suggest that there was an imbalance to begin with. All of the Separatists + Hellfire + Independent Pirates still don't add up to the forces that LN and LSF can muster, considering also ship class imbalances, which I know has been discussed. Not saying this was an intentional bias, but I think there are inevitably oversights in an ecosystem as complicated as Discovery balance, and we must actively identify venues for, and work towards, improvement.