The only thing I will ever say to grind being removed/reduced is "good fucking riddance". Being able to fight the bad guys instead of the system is Homecoming's best selling point.
Shield/Mace tanker on a huge body gives you a pretty solid thunder hammer/storm shield terminator. One of the head detail options even looks like a terminator helmet.
I saw someone running a dark/something blaster as a chaos sorcerer a couple years back.
Scrapper/Brute/Tanker with investment in an electric or psychic ancillary pool gives you a Grey Knight.
Or the player has been burned in the past by Discord and its complete lack of respect for privacy and the right to control one's own computer, and no longer trusts this spyware program masquerading as a chat server.