Vastly overpowered rebel ships

I was just doing the same thing and looking at the interceptor differences, it's crazy how unbalanced it is.

Something I have been noticing on recaps and ingame is the tracking system when it comes to targeting, I've seen recaps where the other player isn't even aiming at my ship and their lasers are tracking me to take me down. I'm wondering if there's something to do with an aim assist that is making things unbalanced? I spent a few of my first games trying to line up my shots perfectly and it was taking me so long that I was just getting blasted, then on watching the playbacks I saw that other players weren't doing the same so I switched to what they were doing and got the enemy in my reticle without really having things lined up perfectly and I'm getting kills...it's counter intuitive to what you're expected to do. I'm aware that there's a weapon upgrade that allows for actual aim assist but does less damage, this isn't what's happening.

I'm seeing more losses to the rebels and the shields are the big issue for me along with this weird target tracking system that the game has. I get they have to stick closely to the canon of SW but I just think they could take some liberties here, either give all ships shields or give the Imps hull points equal to the Rebel shields and hull. Or just remove shield regen or increase the delay.

I'd also love to be able to spot my squad mates a lot easier on the field, I think they should be constant blips on the hud that flash when they're under attack etc. I just feel like I'm so much more aware of where the enemy is and not my squad.