I've played this DLC long enough to know that the growth model, though interesting, is broken, especially at higher difficulty levels. The easiest and least intrusive solution I thought of is to restore Produce Growth to the Administration tech. I see it as a fair trade-off for producing upkeep-free troops being forced to use your entire city production/build queue for a good many turns toward growing up each individual city. The backstory would be easily explained. 
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