They're adverse to doing what -you- consider improving their factions. They themselves consider tech articles improving their faction. That's on them, not on us or to decide. Also if you check the likes on the post, it's more than just the handful of people listed. But even without that, the mods haven't made it mandatory either, so obviously as a whole they probably don't think it's that good of an idea either. Also most significant cooperation are actually more than one person as well. There was a time where origin was -many- people. Also, I don't know of a single corporate faction that was just a personal display piece. They might not have been managed in the best or most fair ways, but corporate factions tend to get a significant amount of RP. However you've been here only for 2 almost three years, so you weren't actually around for most of the corporate faction RP which has recently died out due to to a number of reasons.
All in all, at the end of the day SARP is for entertainment, of course there needs to be rules to keep things in order, but no matter how much it might look like it'll help, when you put strong restrictions on creation that aren't objective, it'll hurt a place that is known for creative freedom. Every faction and every FM is different, the amount of 'culture' articles that are good for them is different. The amount of people they can get is different as well. It's not about "Not wanting to improve their faction" It's about people wanting to do what they -enjoy-. If they wanted to do something mandatory in order to get back to what they wanted to do, they'd work more at their jobs.
The reason why the NTSE guidelines say to make sure an article isn't just repeat tech and is actually something the setting could use is to avoid most of the problems brought up here about how too many tech articles creates some issues.
I get that you want to improve the site and so on. So does everyone. But when you're dealing with a system of -people- you have to account for them as people not as robots or mindless drones, especially not when you take into account that SARP is a luxury and not mandatory. Doesn't matter if something is better in theory if it causes large groups of people to stop engaging in parts of the site. That's something you really need to learn Frost, how to deal with -people-. You lost that somewhere along the way and you've stopped being considerate to everyone you don't like, and it's made things difficult for you and brought no benefits, so I'm not sure why you still do it.