Genetics: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly

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Agreed, but you can't ignore the fact that borging is done on bad traitors/dumb shitters as a punishment.

That just sticks in people's minds and they just associate borging to punishment. I'm sure you'll find that you'll see much fewer people commiting suicide immediately after being cloned than being borged.

Borging traitors isn't done as a punishment, it's done as a tremendous act of kindness. People will usually refuse to clone a "known traitor", and even if they do get cloned, metagamey shitlords will openly beat them to death in broad daylight if their clone is seen walking the halls. Usually their corpse goes right into the reclaimer if it even makes it to the morgue; most people have minimal tolerance for cloning antags because they know the antag will go right back to murdering and destroying if they're revived. People will usually tolerate the traitors being borged, though, because it renders them harmless to the crew and therefore there's no justification for blocking it. Sure, it sucks for the traitor because they can't continue traitoring as a borg unless someone relaws the AI, but the alternative is just staying dead, because very few people will even try to clone an accused traitor even if the corpse is lucky enough to make it to Genetics somehow. It's metagamey as fuck and I don't like it, but that's player culture for you.

tldr: If somebody's being a bad traitor/dumb shitter, the usual punishment is having your corpse reclaimed or thrown out the nearest airlock. Being borged is an act of mercy, not a punishment - it's a compromise that allows you to be revived while forcibly keeping you out of trouble.