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Currently, optimal routes for Artifacts use gates and lanes from Cambridge all the way to Manhattan. For Cardamine, they use gates and lanes from Cortez onwards, having dodged a number of House systems by using the Barrier Pass.
Point is, if folks want to use the jump holes to avoid interaction, they are taking a colossal profit hit. Particularly if they want to use the holes to avoid TLAGSNET in Liberty.
If players want to do that, they're already penalizing themselves. There's nothing that devs can do to change that. It's a player mentality and players have to fix that themselves.