I consider myself a small ship pilot in exile who has been forced to fly medium ships. Small ships are the most fun to fly because they require the most stick handling skill to even survive. If I could just fly an SLF by itself through the galaxy with no mothership (or at least being able to dismiss it) that is the dream. So of course I have been pushing for Frontier to finally add a purpose for small ships in PVP. Similar to what the current SLFs have now, with almost no success so far. I'd never expect this to come in a single patch, but tbh, this patch had the potential to make it slightly possible for high skill small ship pilots to finally take on large ship pilots without resorting to cheesy tactics like mines (which just don't have that star wars x-wing vs a star destroyer feel).
As for the PVP community, and PH backpedalling. Lol. Nice zing, points for that. But very inaccurate. 1) because it works, I've done it. Nothing you say will convince me that I didn't do it already repeatedly, in actual PVP. Unless PD were nerfed in the last year or so, it's still possible. 2) as I said already, for me this has nothing to do with drag munitions itself. You guys are splashing around a pro-small-ship rock that has been in the same place for 3 years, long before this silly patch. Feel free to keep splashing. I'll still be in the same place long after this patch cycle has run its course.