I agree, that's the only reason that justifies the need to progress through G1-G5 for every module to me.
However, imho linear progress is the wrong way of keeping people from reaching their uber-ships too quickly.
It will still result in way too many top-end ships populating the bubble.
I'd rather prefer an exponential approach.
I agree with the first bit: Let people go directly to low level Grade 5 (once unlocked) or to very quickly go from G1 to G5 with one roll per grade.
After that I'd either exponentially slow down the progress made per roll or increase the materials required per roll the closer it gets to the max.
Like bladebss I think it's important that it's still possible to improve a module for a long time if you're ready to spend the effort or if you just happen to have the spare materials.
I'd even add a decimal place for the stats to allow for very tiny improvements close to the max.
Think of modern race cars: Even in high end racing the cars aren't entirely on par despite all the money and engineering know-how they throw at it. The last fraction of a percent is always the most expensive one and it should be the same when engineering our ships.
I could support the new system if they implemented something like this to make sure low level G5 modules stay reasonable and top-end modules stay very rare.
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