Well
1) Faction has too much to do
2) People log it on it's 2-2.5 bonus instead of mining factions with 3.0+ or unlawfuls that don't have it.
-This was the reasoning of both St.Dennis and Aerelm, and obviously they have the data from the past that prove this from examples like RHA and other unlawfuls that got the bonus. People must have stopped playing other factions and instead mined on Hessians clearly.