Of course they are grateful that you have spent time and effort on the project.
However, they frankly would not want to spend boring time power-trading for the best equipment again. They thought they were finished with this. They thought, okay, we have set ourselves up now we have done everything in this aspect we can move onto other more fun aspects. Like using the ship.
(Nerfing would be removing the Diamonds-Niobium route, and yes I do know how overpowered that is. However combined with the constant rumours of capital ships going to cost more and trading routes going to spout less, it has people wondering how many more hours they are going to have to put into trading.)
So yes, keep throwing sarcasm-laced guilt-tripping statistics.