Not sure what you're getting at, sorry. That I'm bad at the game? I mean, sure, probably. I don't play it to win, I play it to have fun. I like the roleplay. Mechanics take a backseat position for me if they aren't conducive to that.
In the case of the mod I made, I found it during my playtime hard and cumbersome to keep legitimacy high. Based on that, rather than suffering constant debuffs, I figured the positive modifiers could always be a fun incentive to raise it when needed, though I also don't recall them themselves having been all that useful.
I'm not sure exactly why you're here, but if you're looking for a version that removes the buffs and debuffs both, feel free to take the mod and edit the code as you see fit, uploading if you wish. That wouldn't bother me.

I have a suspicion you might be interested in the mechanic if you're keeping the upsides and you just dont want to deal with already non-existent consequences of your actions :P