As a Zoner Indie, since I didn't join any zoner faction.
I find that the 3 current zoner factions follow the zoner will. We have 3 aspect in the 3 faction : Religion, commerce, technologie. ANd all maintain the basic Zoner policies.
Zoner are people who decided to live outside colonial control. And by that way they are many. Because each time a governement do something they will be people against and who will leave the system. And some of them become Zoner.
Also each zoner faction different, they follow there own way. Like a zoner. They have different home and different goal, Like all freeport in vanilla.
So to my mind The current Zoner Faction are fine. In vanilla it's written that Zoner have very good scientist. So they can build cap. The reason : need to explore deeper because of the colonist expansion. And have an answer to the PIRATE cap, because yes, in that way 'sair , outcast didn't have cap too in vanilla.