I don't want to sound mean, and I thing it is shabby how the Galnet article was released a tad too early, but everyone was somehow expecting the Gnosis to arrive at the Conehead Sector without a hitch or their Megaship getting Hyperdicted.
Canonn Research proclaim they are all for the science.
They know everything there is to know about the aliens.
They also know that no player can enter a locked area of space.
Admiral Aden Tanner (Aegis’s chief military liaison) warned us about the Hydra living in the Cone Sector.
The Pilot's Federation took Admiral Aden Tanner's warning seriously, and locked access to that Sector.
Canonn Research had a full week - knowing it was highly likely that, based on their scientific findings and other Thargoid evidence, they could get Hyperdicted en-route (failing to reach their destination entirely) - to contact whoever they needed to and cancel their flight plan.
They didn't.
They assumed (either through excessive arrogance or hubris) that they would reach their destination in the Conehead Sector, and, at the very most, have their ship disabled
after they reached their destination in a permit locked region.
And all despite knowing what the aliens are fully capable of -
easily able to tear ships out of Witch-space, including Megaships, to attack and disable them.
Frontier isn't to blame.
The Lore is there. The in-game scientific knowhow is there. This is something that Canonn preach - they ignored their own science, evidence, and all the warnings.
Canonn Research made the ultimate decision to do this - the buck stops with them.
Canonn Discord - Canonn Council.