I love ships as it currently stands. In my experience battles are 2-3 minutes (i rank top 5 every day and can beat any squad in my shard, all of which are maxed) and its 50/50 if we need to use ackbars ultimate or not.
The falcon is incredibly easy to beat with another Falcon, even weaker and slower than the AI, and HT is also very easily beatable with or without falcon with old as dirt non paywall ships.
If opponent has both then you do probably need one or the other, but it has been more than enough time to unlock the tooth as F2P so idk what to tell you if you don't have it.
We do need more capital ships, and we could use a little rock paper scissors (bugs-BH-rebels) for diversity but otherwise ships is the best part of the game right now for fight mechanics.