It's not a big inconvinience to have such restarts, but i can't see the real reasons for that. Although i haven't seen most of the game yet.
But as far as i can say, is to reduce lags (which i'm not having). But if restart fixes the lag then there can be 2 things that causes them in the first place:
1. The server can't handle all the online players and alts, and after restart many of them are offline.
2. The server software doesn't clean garbage from memory, so the memory leak is taking place, especially after something intense. Code should be cleaned, or else it may lead to the bigger problems in the future.
Freelancer corp list, if anyone cares, is also a bug that can be fixed.
I'm not against this proposal, but i can't see how can it really help. A little or not, it's inconvinient, after all.