Well, yeah. But even if they can. So what? it's restricted to omegas and omicrons. And can only shoot fighting oriented crafts (you won't see many traders with those faction's tags around). How come that's abuse?
I can put Pirate ID and shoot anyone by trying to pirate them. Heck even rheinland military. It's 99 out of 100 that he will refuse to give away his mines and situation will end up by combat.
You are making too big of a deal out of nothing here with RoS or HF.