Ed no-breathers do suffer: in stock they have a slight advantage over breathers, while in FQM a slight disadvantage. Though I feraded a much larger difference, there are still a lot of moons (or other planets I didn't check their position) forced to be tiny none, and there are also some forced to be small-none and medium-none that do not exist in the stock game.
About ice dwellers, the difference with the standard Version is minimal, ice people don't get any more gypped in FQM than in the stock game.
I'm trying to determine the reason of this difference.
You're free to examine the spreadsheet I posted to check for mistakes either in the data I copied as source or in my logic. Or to generate a quadrant and count planets to check if their proportion is close to the one I calculated
I'm counting those ice planets, but both of them only appear in systems repeated 3 times each so those 6 planets are insignificant when weighted against the total of 9,316 planets.
For example the number of planets forced to be huge gas giants is far more significant.
Even if you'd add one of those ice planets in every system it wouldn't be enough to make them even with rock and gas.
To even ice planets you'd need something more drastic, like changing 1/4 of the total number of any-any-any planets to any-any-ice.
I couldn't find anything conclusive yet, but my guess is that the larger number of planets, the slight advantage in gas, and the greater proportion of tiny and small planets accentuate the difference between ice and rock.
Even the little difference in small-methane gets stressed due to the larger proportion of small-any planets.