Weird.
That was one of the arguments that were made against Drag Munition changes ### "everyone would be forced to have it to be competitive in pvp"
The two cases are not even remotely similar.
Every single ship has an engine, but not all of them carry weapons on which you could put the drag experimental.
You can use the "dirty drives" upgrade on your engines if speed is what you want (not permaboost, that's mainly a distributor dependent thing), like for PvP. Or "clean drives", if you want to run super cool (that's largely irrelevant in PvP).
But you cannot use the "drag munitions" effect on a PA+rail loadout, for instance. And what's worse, the "drag munitions" experimental can be applied to weapons like seekers/packhounds and gimballed frags, which are pretty much uncounterable and don't even require any kind of skill to use.
That's why you can say that "the drag munitions buff forces everyone to use frags/missiles to remain competitive". But what about the dirty drives? Would you complain "the dirty drive mod forces me to use
engines on my ship", or what?