Does anyone have any ideas on a way to return pre-crusade AI to Minor civs?

Currently they now act as a pre-space civ which would be nice for a new faction type with perhaps a way to uplift them or collect research though observation or probing, but having the minor civs act like limited Majors gave me loads of possibilities with lore/gameplay. Especially since they were AI only and didn't count towards the overall player count.

I loved being able to add all the lesser factions and organizations from a game universe like starcraft with the only majors being standard Zerg, Terran, Protoss. This allowed me to add minor factions like the following without clogging up the major faction tab raynors raiders, Terran Confederacy, UED, Sons of Korhal, Moebius Foundation, Nerazim, Daelaam, Tal'darim, Purifiers, Primal Zerg, ect.

I would love to see the changes in the minor civ behavior controlled by more tags like the following rather than complete removal of functionality as the minor factions now have no AI in comparison to pre-Crusade Minor Factions.

    <SpecialBehavior>DoesNotTrade</SpecialBehavior>

    <SpecialBehavior>DoesNotSpeakToPlayer</SpecialBehavior>