I don't think that's entirely true Jason, I've had more than my fair share of beefs with SDC but, as you'll see from my post in that thread you linked, I thought their proposal was pretty good. The thing is it involves far to much evasion and carrot and not enough stick, it's not about wanting to avoid progress but stearing clear of progress that is only beneficial to criminals.
And the problem SDC, scrub that, any of us have when posting here is our posting history and our action and preferences in game. SDC can't expect a clean slate when suggesting something considering their previous actions any more than a Mobius member can. Rightly or wrongly we all do it, it's happening from both sides in this very thread and in recent posts, SDC shouldn't expect a waiver simply because of a well presented but flawed idea.
Nice to see You don't exactly belong in the echo chamber