For ships it was either Arena to Fight, or Quests to do my daily challenges. Ships being pulled/combined didn't change much for me. Same really for Galactic Battles, it isn't used by directly entering that, everyone I know enters it through the daily quest (it takes less time).
When there is blank aka white space between some of the modules this is bad UX development when it causes such a wide screen for this amount of scrolling. I love the game, but they rushed this UI out without really taking into account how people interact with it. There is clear and obvious room for improvement.