After reading the posts, I see no one pointed out that Icarus faction agents, while they may have a faster completion time on the Search & Destroy mission, they will also have a ton more competition to tackle.
While more folks will get into the faction to get their faction missions 10% faster, they will shortly notice they will be cracked and their processes killed by rival agents doing the same mission, so the 10% bonus may not be worth the extra competition hassle...
Adware may become more used since the higher advare version requires research of higher adware anti-virus, reducing the number of competitive disinfectors as opposed to the low version file share AV that will be provided by the secret servers and will not require as much research.
All in all, very good points and I see some great tactics in the round ahead