Wanna know another reason ships are terrible?
You got to delay your character farming. On one hand, so many important ships (BHs for M-F, HT, TIE Bomber) are gated behind NORMAL energy nodes. On the other hand, important characters are gated behind FLEET nodes.
Add to that the fact that OLD ships require SO much time to farm (when compared to 2-shard drop old characters), meaning that you spend twice as many sims on a normal node that you wouldn't if you were farming most characters.
Ship combat is also terrible. Yeah, I don't like them either.
EDIT: Always forget the initials for Millenium Falcon are getting censored :'(