Well I am in favor of simply giving the players *any* way to uncover lore, it doesn't really need to be research outposts though that does fit nicely.
The enthusiasm with which players are currently hunting down all the (!) NPCs and sharing the snippets of info clearly suggests to me this has potential.
What's more, new lore is going to be regularly released *anyways*, and it's really a huge miss of opportunity when it's just dumped on us instead of being offered as something we can earn. Same for content, actually. Like those occupations, they just suddenly appeared out of the blue, we could've been allowed to discover those.
The enthusiasm with which players are currently hunting down all the (!) NPCs and sharing the snippets of info clearly suggests to me this has potential.
What's more, new lore is going to be regularly released *anyways*, and it's really a huge miss of opportunity when it's just dumped on us instead of being offered as something we can earn. Same for content, actually. Like those occupations, they just suddenly appeared out of the blue, we could've been allowed to discover those.