If you ask me, the fleet carrier update in general suffered from a severe lack of foresight and planning combined with a hearty helping of "close enough" kick-it-out-the-door development.
I would really like ED evolving into a yearly payable subscription game.
Or maybe they could introduce it with a major update, like Odyssey - make new content a "subscription " only.
IF
It would allow
assigning a qualified and adequate team to fix ALL bugs that emerged over the years
better communication with players community
implementing feedback-impacted game changes.
I know that would make SOME or even most of leave the game - but ED it not a MMO anyway, because of instances the change in number of players you meet on average per hour would not change dramatically - because we do not see the majority of them even in open, even when they are in the same system.
I don't play many other games since I got "sucked" by ED 2nd time.
Effectively, I would save a lot of money by paying just for ED yearly instead of buying several games per month that I ditch after relatively short time.