Can you please walk us through your reasoning to put profundity in the trash?

Because "New Shiny!"  Even at 3-stars, "new shiny!" beats R7, R8, R9 piloted ships and capital ship because that's what CG deems as important.

As was speculated, they will probably release Red 5 or Luthen's ship to go with the rebel fleet which will counteract PO in some way, so we'll need to spend money, time, and resources on that ship so profundity isn't garbage.  But it'll be a while for that to show up.