This rule change was about 50% of why in the span of a week, I went from putting in 45 hours a per week on Paradise to putting in 45 hours per week on Aurora. Paradise is kickass. It's got awesome mechanics, a good community, and high population role playing through the violence and macabre treatment by NT. I'd love to come back to Paradise and have tried multiple times, but every time, it's either a baldie named Johnny Rico or a blue haired greyshirt named Rick Sanches that takes me out of the round. My gaming community used to have Paradise station specifically as one of our primary games for game night. The name change and subsequent loss of immersion drove them away from SS13 as a whole. A few mainline Aurora, Goon, or CM now, but the majority of them (about 20 in the group) are gone because of it. (And a few other changes that happened around the same time that I won't bring up in this thread out of respect for ts people who implemented them.)
TL;DR THE PARA IS GOOD. THE RULE IS BAD. SO SAYS ZARDOZ.