gunboats have never been considered caps as far as rules and pretty much all law enforcement has gone
youre shrinking law enforcements ZoI even further, while factions like the Outcasts and Corsairs can bring battleships to and attack people and pobs in something like 80% of all systems in the game
pennsylvania is literally a liberty system, considering its all liberty factions, has a battleship in the system, and has a liberty controlled planet, has been in our laws since its inception, so im not sure why youre excluding that
honestly doesnt seem like much of an improvement. more of a net loss for houses and more of the same for everyone else
par for the course with the current development process though
EDIT: supposedly not shrinking ZOI, seems like a nothingburger rewording to me then