Richard,
Just found your post, so not sure you are still reading my responses.
How you perceive anything is, just about you.
I use the Large Font setting, not Huge.
The font sizes are there for a reason.
There is no advantage to anti-grav technology if that technology is used based on doctrine derived from using vehicles that require surface traction. Similarly using tanks deployed in close order formation (British Army during Normady breakouts) proved deadly to them when attacked by German tanks.
The question is not how Patrons regard mercenaries, but how mercinaries regard themselves, and any Patron that regards them as 'expendable'. A 'mercenary' is a profession, and requires the mercenary to survive long enough to retire and make use of his or her prceeds of employment. If the mercenary unit finds that they were supplied wrong information which leads their contract mission to an expendable culmination, the surviving mercs may decide that the Patron is also expendable.
When a given world-view of anything is questioned and disrupted, the strategy of 'if I ignore it long enough, it will just go away', is rarely successful.
Greg