I was throwing out Occam's Razor a few pages back in response to the quest for binary etc.
However, I don't think you're applying it correctly here.
Occam's Razor, applied to the mystery of why it explodes, is because that's what all cargo, left in space long enough, does. Why does it do that? Because, as has just been mentioned, FD put in the rule to avoid clouds of space junk building up where players were dumping cargo.
Why does the UA have a special 'death' explosion compared to other cargo? Because FD have put quite a lot of work into making a 'special' Artefact that's more active than a canister, which wouldn't just disappear when it expires, it makes sense that it would go out in a blaze of glory, since it looks alive/active and anything that's expending energy is going to do more than just go out in a puff of dust. Look at the animations of UA, the sound etc, a significant number of dev hours have been spent on this UA, so it makes sense that proportion of that would go on making it blow up 'properly' when it dies.
The most recent new UA was found about two weeks ago, by Mrtree. At that point there were three, but unfortunately Wishblend lost hers. This was after weeks of searching.
So the spawn rate is low, but it's not zero - bit they are exceedingly rare, so it would make sense that they're not spawning often.
Occam's Razor says the more assumptions you make, the less likely you are to be correct. I'm using only facts to explain the explosion and the scarcity - you're making assumptions that some magical happening will occur if we let both UAs die.
Ergo, Occam says my explanation is more likely to be correct.
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