The problem with supporting Hyperion isn't just that they're crooks, but that they (and by they I mean Ben Hermans) have no interest in the future of the community. Ben boi was happy to screw over anyone who naively tried to help him before he went in debt, and now he's in debt everything he touches will be cynically bled dry.

A retro community led by Hyperion (and possibly Hyperion itself) would exist only as long as Ben had paid off a sufficient quantity of his debt, then thrown to the wolves. All the hard work and love put it into it would be torn apart and wasted, much like it was with OS4.