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The short trade routes still go through the same choke-points. Even if they don't, piracy isn't supposed to be easy - it's hard. You have to work for your money. That means you may not get the same rewards for camping that one particular lane in California any more. I don't see what you're complaining about really. More logical economy? Oh no!
You have a valid point about the rest though. The dev team seems to have implemented several features that they really should know better about. Then again, the IDs were all hastily written in the last 2 days before mod release, with most of them being wrong. I guess they'll all be sorted in time.