I am not sure if this is a bug or not but I thought Vodyani would have access to this technology or have it as a starting trait much like Xenoblogy or Fearless warriors 2 etc as their design is all about brainwashing etc and the Final Religious law "Peace and Prayer Act" is about converting using cultural flexibility and just making that easier to do and not require the spending of influence points to buy out systems (making cultural flexibility purely passive) but they don't seem to have access to it or start with it?

Is this a bug or has it been removed at this point in development while the devs sort out the code for how Vodyani would gain the planets (since they don't get the planets they would need a n ark in the system to exploit them)

I would imagine it would cause a rebellion/minor faction that is under Vodyani control and so tribute to them dust science and essence until taken back or the Vodyani player evacuates the planet to take it with thier ark ships.

Other wise it makes little sense why Vodyani have so many ways of generating influence but be unable to spend it and the Final Religious law (which is essentially the final law as they are most likely to gain enough Religious support to use it) but have no reason or benefit from enacting the law if they can actually peacefully assimilate planets with it.  Also you gain religious influence from taking systems via influence etc.

so in a nut shell is the fact the Cultural Flexibility tech is missing in the Vodyani tech tree a bug or is the fact they don't start with it a bug? or both?