Pretty much @ihatethisengine nailed it with the biggest flaw in my eyes about pred gameplay interactions. I am too bald to kill one as marine or xeno and that’s ok, they are supposed to be some supermen in the movies as well, one issue I find is that in my experience very few preds (still greater than zero) try to make encounters interesting, 95% of the time it feels like just some space bully that gets to blow you up if you look at them funny with no forseeable reward in engaging with them; if they wordlessly kill you, you are just dead, if you manage to kill them you doomed your whole faction. I know very little of the honour code but I have seen surprisingly many times a pred that gets mauled in a 1v1 duel against a T1 even and they get to turn invisible, run away and heal up and after when the said T1 tries to run away they get chased and killed, this applies to pred v marine as well. I struggle to see how this is beneficial to the server and not just a way to satisfy some power-fantasies of a handful of players to the detriment of everyone else.
About the moral integrity of the WL council I wait to see the result of Nimbus342 - Whitelist Report: Elite Qor'jok Teer, Weapon usage but was generally undermining the spirit of the WL to determine if such a thing exists.