I'm glad the pointless Support Ships were scrapped in-place of Fleet Carrier services/loadout outfitting, the latter is much better
That's your opinion. The latter is simpler and in my opinion, cheaper. Clearly they were focused in the new DLC, as we all know. I only give them credit for the work around carrier to work in a mmo and the full persistance, for each one fc, of course, which is brilliant, but the carrier itself, I'm sorry but not.
We don't know what would have been the gameplay of the mothership of the auxiliary ships, and how were then working together, and we'll never know. But would be something new. Instead of that, what we have is a carrier with almost the same services, menu focused, as and old system station/megaship/gnosis reskinned, being the best and almost only new feature, adding a market that is maybe a first step to player economy.