Does it only change the reward if you pick the Last ark game rule and always?

Another reward made useless by Last Ark: China has a 100-applicants (!) reward for producing 100 food.

Another one that has a mission goal reward that's not very useful on Last Ark: International Mars Mission has 2 rewards that are applicants. One of these is for having a lot of research points per sol.

This is good!

I wouldn't mind if you swapped a few more rewards, effects, results, etc this way, wherever they appear in-game. Do a full sweep for every string of "gain [#] [trait] Applicants" if you can.

Honestly, once I've got a good population going, I don't even look at applicants anymore. Terrans are seed population only to me; my eventual goal is 100% martianborn pop.

If I really want some special trait people that badly, I kidnap them from other colonies! :D