For my $0.02c, here was my solution to the Zorri dialogue: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1akShjAvYRl98exDBBW9U53hnGTunE4th/view
You know, if we go with bbghost’s idea here, and just cut it slightly more to, “Babu only works for the crew. That’s not you anymore,” that solves the tonal dissonance issue, and the “Poe is retconned into a drug dealer” issue simultaneously.
We can just assume that Poe ran into Babu and Zorii during a past adventure, and get on with the story at hand without wasting any more time.