Executor is a beast? [MERGE]

Just for reference when we were being hard sold this ship @CG_Miller said (in actual recorded words out of his mouth) the following things:
"There was a long overdue need for a meta refresh"
"We wanted to shake up the meta"
"This has been planned since Piett came out"
"The team knocked it out of the park on this ship"
"You'll be able to stick it on Defense, it'll hold its own on the defensive side"
"This ship is coming into the top of the meta"
"We wanted to ensure players who were investing in this ship were investing in a top of the meta ship and being rewarded for their investment"
"Spent days thinking about the ultimate and what this ship could do as a top of the meta ship"
"You're really just bringing Empire ships to kinda fill out the rest of the reinforcements"
"Making a top of the meta ship is a lot easier than say something in the top-5"
"This is going to be the top of the meta for a while"
"Existing top of the meta fleets against a 4-star Executor should have a chance...when there are 7-star Executors out there hopefully you'll have yours too!"
"We're requiring pilots are relic levels so If you're getting the Executor your pilots and Piett are something you don't then have to worry about"
"It is a very powerful top of the meta ship"

...So, yeah, ooh wonder why people invested in this requirement-heavy ship expecting it to be able to hold on defense and be worthy of the title of a meta changing investment (...that many of us chose instead of GL Lord Vader since we couldn't afford to do both!)