I find WY much more interesting when they're just nudging people into shitty directions to see what happens, rather than overtly trying to endanger/f**k with/murder people. They were inspired by corporate negligence, but today they're just ... actively evil. Even if we say it's sleeper groups within the Company, it feels like a cheap way to have our cakes and eat it.
Burke was an individual concerned with personal gain, who arguably went against his own Company to achieve that goal (attempting to lay claim on the find rather than run it up the corporate ladder, where he would be forgotten). He wasn't in a position to, say, air-drop eggs on an unsuspecting colony to see what happens, for example.