With the system being as it is, you will always find some route that doesn't make sense. Someone will certainly come along if your changes are approved and find issues with them, for some other connections that they bother about.
Instead of feeling discriminated against, don't you see how much this makes your island realm MORE viable? Before you were tied to a small number of specific routes. A small alliance of realms could have easily boxed you in by taking control of all of them. Now you can go anywhere.
