Just to say, because I feel that it might be essential to verify the degree of legitimacy you should attribute to my walls of text, I am not "a zoner". I have no Zoner characters, I am not invested in Zoner diplomacy and I have yet to have purchased my first Juggy.
So, please, do not take any views I posit as Zoner gospel. I'm just this dude who sometimes has some opinions on player movements and theory of trade.
That being said... I'm having difficulty reconciling the idea of wishing to avoid using Gran Canaria due to it possessing an export and perception of focusing populations on that world reinforcing a false notion of unity with the argument that people should be moving from the Indipendent/Borderworld freeports to Gran Canaria in order to secure, as you put it a fresh start... is confusing me.
What you're stating is essentially the same thing I stated, but backwards.
Where I said
GC <--------> B type bases
You're saying I'm wrong and that it should be
B type bases <-------> GC
Which is the exact same thing....
Unless you're saying
B type bases -----> GC? No return trip?
*This post was brought to you by a bottle of Gascon wine. Excellent Monblanc.