I don't think anyone would argue against that. But the devil is in the detail, as ever, and it is how you go about designing it to work well for those that want to make machinima or simply view their ships doing cool stuff from the outside while simultaneously ensuring that it cannot be abused in some way to gain advantage over another human player.
Absolutely, and we of course have people with differing opinions on the mechanics/problems within this
We have some people (like myself) who really feel the game would be missing something without it, and can happily envisage a nerfed external view not providing a combat (etc) advantage.
And we of course have others who see problems with it.
Hopefully FD can make both camps happy.