I missed a couple of years of history, so the question was, why is the LWB faction removed? Then why haven't the Farmers Alliance and Synth Foods been removed? Judging by some posts on the forum, they all belong to the same "area". And all are considered unnecessary already.
I ask because it would be interesting for me to play for one of them, but I do not want to start for the faction that will soon be removed.
LWB was not played
People complained, revived it on Pirate ID.
And again it wasn't played after about 2 big logs.
It was a bit random tho - why delete the factions really. E.g. Gallic Police was erased right before Gallia got active again with smugglers and external wars ended, and a faction that is already dead a couple months later was added (Gallic Royalists). And that's not even vanilla
Oh, it was really dubious decision. I doubt that LWB really bothered anyone. But someone decided it would be a great (and simple) solution, and sentence was carried out without much thoughts. Classic.