If the brewery has a deficit of bones following RF's destruction, that implies RF had been shipping mudokon bones there for some time. I always thought that they hadn't yet started to make Mudokon Pops during AO, hence 'Coming Soon...' Abe discovered the plans before they were put into motion and stopped the idea from happening (at least in RF 1029). I never got the impression Abe learned the truth behind an existing product
It's established in the AO intro that Mudokon Pops are Molluck's idea, so I wouldn't have thought other franchises would have started making them sooner than 1029.
So if bones were being shipped from RF prior to AO, and SoulStorm Mining Co. was purely reactionary as Lorne suggests, where did they come from? Work related accidents? Seems too small and inconsistent for a huge brewery to rely on!
Think of the mountains of bone powder in Bonewerkz, there's no way anything coming from RF would account for even 1% of that supply. The 'deficit' following AO would be negligible. And the idea that SoulStorm Mining Co is essentially a quick pop-up shop makes no sense in the given timeframe.
Whilst I really like the idea of exploring negative consequences of Abe's actions, in my opinion things would need to change with the narrative to make the situation believable. Having a span of time pass between the games, and establishing exactly why the events in AO let to the plans to mine Necrum, for example.
Maybe these are the kinds of story changes Lorne has hinted at for the new game?