What?

Because someone is trying to micromanage every aspect of what limited playerbase there is, with the intent of increasing the playerbase by doing so. I haven't found the logic in it yet, but I've extensively whined about it https://zero-k.info/Forum/Thread/31815

My conclusion so far is that certain people have no idea what they are doing.

It isn't hard to understand. Post in https://zero-k.info/Forum/Thread/31815 for clarification, as this new thread is essentially a duplicate.