Rationally, I get your point. And I don't actually know what sticks in my craw with this change of tactic.
Looking back at all of the various plots over the years, an inhuman morality system has been the norm. Dragons, AIs,bugs, Horrors, probably Sybil... None of them work on a level that we can really 'get'. To me, that made them more terrifying. I can understand mammals mostly. I work off of a similar instinctual drive. Insects... They work off of different rules. Intelligent insects... Man, I don't even know. I want them to work off of a completely alien philosophy of vengeance. Not sabotaging a type of gun for a PR attack. What insect would do that? I don't want my insects doing something that MCT would do.
Looking at Insects, I want them to act like the totem. Wasp attacks through numbers and force, Beetle is aggressive but adaptive, Firefly is passive, Ant buries and survives, Roach hides and looks for optimal growth. I wish Roach was as prevalent in canon as Ant has been. But that's my thing.
I dunno. I'm talking myself through a lot of the changes from 2ND to 5th nowadays. I'm sure that I'll eventually come around to the changes, but until then, I discuss them.
For the record, I prefer 4th metaplot to nearly all of 3Rd.