I agree. I like the SLF and of course if people don't want one they can easily put something else in that slot. No need to ruin it for everyone else.
Same here.
Right now, if I want to go and have some yucks with my SLF pilot, my choices are limited to the FGS or, erm, doing something else entirely.
The FGS' jump-range is dreadful so it's not really a ship you can use as a daily-driver and it doesn't really have the slots to allow it to be configured as a multirole ship.
I just want the Krait to be a ship I can do a bit of everything in and fit an SLF for the yucks.
Without the SLF bay, it's immediately going to be compared to the AspX and it'll need some other damned impressive redeeming feature to convince me to use it instead of an AspX.