I guess all that is changed is the fact there is no known "harsh" figure currently. In the past it was Faweh, his alts and Apop. Supposedly Apop could even bwoink/ban benos for not attempting to capture doctors as lone Shipside beno.
I simply think that you can't have MRP/HPR server with more than 100 players as lowpop. Stale and repetitive nature doesn't add anything and RP'ing isn't rewarding. All those faxes, all those prays, all those medical and security records, it is all worthless.
MetaRush is just the best tactic marines have, so it's not proof of anything. Give benos some NPC's at the start of the round that can be released only 5 minutes after DS lands. BYOND NPC's are strong on open field, but are too dumb to do anything to cades, so this would be the best gameplay mechanic to prevent metarushes and it would also give some sort of "achivement" for random baldie who menaged to kill stupid NPC.