That too. Personally I'm not out to destroy Xenogen (for one thing that's essentially impossible), but taking them down a few pegs would be appreciated, even if that doesn't really have an effect beyond flavor text. Certainly I don't think it speaks well of Captain Steele's potential as a CEO if they're making deals that make them a few thousand credits and make Xenogen a few trillion. Developing Steele Biomedical into a viable competitor is one of the few things you'd be able to do so far that's actually relevant to the alleged goal of the game. It's similar to why after some thought I'm in favor of your banana republic simulator: if Steele is supposed to be a businessman and leader, they really ought to have some opportunities to actually show it.
Yeah those deals sound really bad when you think that way but it's not like we can actually sell them to our own company beyond maybe the Orange pill IIRC. And for the most part literally any dude could have walked those in. Or just talked them into the lab with sex.
Unless selling those unique options to our own company is something we can actually do it's probably going to happen anyway. Though our nanobots storing genetic information to be beamed back to the Doctor's labs to produce mod that would otherwise be pumped into production by Xenogen would be kinda cool. Eat five zil treats either normally or in some destructive method on the ship that doesn't transform you and Leeseau makes Honeyseed et all and Zill Alpha.
Similar could probably happen with Ganreal Crystal Shards going to us instead of Kiha Corp.