Powergamers don't care about lore.
The people who want a lore change most likely want it because it lets you do more RP stuff.
I mean, if everyone was playing things straight, someone speaking against Nanotrasen practices could very well be charged with treason if it was powerful enough. There is also very little reason for an anti-nanotrasen guy to just decide to work in nanotrasen. You have sleeper agents, assuming that's what revs are, but still. I'd much rather prefer an independent station going to hell because the captain received official looking orders to begin segregating by alcohol tolerance than a Nanotrasen station going to hell because they received official looking orders to begin removing aliens and such.
Plus, again, I don't really like NT. They seem to act within the boundries of 'over the top evil' and 'just evil enough' evil. I don't really see much of a redeeming factor for NT. Suuure, they may have some good sides, but the fact they stepped on so many people to the point that pretty much
everyone is against them and
still not getting the message to
maybe start some PR campaigns that aren't 'NANOTRASEN WANTS
YOU TO MINE PHORON.' At least it'd make sense for them to disband their death squad. There's a reason those rumors don't disappear.
* Iceblaster is overthinking NT and probably got things wrong.