Actually I was quite happy with ships 2.0. The 1.0 favored the face rolling Executirx meta too much and 95% of the battles were the same with some minor differences in the lineup.
With 2.0 for a short time you saw more diversity in capital ships. With HT the diversity faded a bit. With HMF you have the least diversity, but at least it is fast and absolutely NOT rng dependant, if you have your stuff geared a bit. Or, before ppl start trying to explain what rng means again: Even if you have a bit of bad luck, you will normally win, if you don't experience the darkest, doomed and forsaken bad luck day of your life.
And yes - some kind of raid or other new content for ships would be nice. Not sure how a raid could look like with max 4 fleets per player, but would be nice to see something like that.