Whether I find that surprising in the slightest depends on how closely involved CCP Gnauton is in the lore.
From a mechanical perspective, it's minimally important-- none of the entities at play can be killed in gameplay without being in essentially ideal conditions for cloning.
From a worldbuilding perspective, it's a gaping hole. If soft clones don't exist and only DUST soldiers carry their cloning rigs around with them, capsuleers should exist in permanent fear of out-of-pod assassination by pissed-off baseliner entities. Nothing says, "Yes, we know it was you who interfered with our one hundred thousandth attempt to invade Motsu, and we don't appreciate it," like a rail flechette through the brainpan.
