Hrm. So back when I took issue with ARC housing a corporation that kept being militarily active within Republic space - against Republic loyalists - I was largely considered something of a bully for holding the alliance responsible for such clearly non-neutral activity.
Now these days as ARC actually maintains far more neutral stances, the outrage towards them has increased by orders of magnitude.
Have to wonder, what happened to make them this unpopular all of a sudden? They certainly haven’t gotten any more questionable, dangerous or otherwise unpalatable than back then. Their critics certainly haven’t gotten more principled all of a sudden either, so one has to wonder what kind of conflicts have arisen backstage for this play to become quite so fraught with anger and bitterness.