Having run it several times, my most disliked part of the MSQ is:

[Silverbane]

Recruiting anything with a pulse to join the Crystal Braves.
I know some of these people are scum, from past experience.
I know how it's going to wind up, because I "have the Echo" from my previous runs.
And it's for that annoying pretentious child, whom my spouse calls "alpha-nerd."

I've never wanted actual agency so much any other time in the game.
"No, Laurentius, you cannot be in our club, because you're scum."

[Edit: this post is prompted by me doing it for the ninth damned time at the moment.]