Well, don't understand me wrong, I love the ships content definitely, it's great. And certainly the f2p player can use the fleet tokens for rare toons like Sun Fac or purple gear while loosens the bottleneck - at the price of definitely not being competetive in Fleet Arena, a route I most likely will take. Battles in the Fleet Arena should still be fun, just at a lower tier.
It's just a total contrast to Squad Arena, where f2p actually can largely compete with whales.