I think they should bring back money and interactions with it. The CL is mostly powerless right now because no one really cares about the money he can print.
Maybe he can get access to different or more interesting equipment.
Hell ""royal jelly" is in the code.. and it can revive xenos during techweb.. maybe let him buy that.
It's a shame they scrapped the defcon system. A CL specific one would have been interesting.