I gotta say... I kept expecting someone to jump to FD's defence here and provide at least some semblance of an argument about why this CG is good. Myself, I normally would tend towards the 'white knight' end of the spectrum (if we must label...), but this time I got nothing.
With my recently reset CMDR, I went to the CG station and dumped all the data I had; I made no effort at all to get any more. That got me to 75% and earned me 144m. The only time I have earned this kind of money from a CG was the exploration one last year where there was a boost to exploration earnings, and I genuinely did make a big effort, and felt the reward was more or less appropriate. Here, I make one trip, dump the data I got organically while playing - no grinding involved - and next thing I know I have an Anaconda's worth of money. And that was because I supported Winters - I'd have gotten even more from Hudson. Is it just that FD tried to put a credit value on a commodity that cannot normally be bought and sold, and came up way off target?
I feel like I entered a cheat code.