Next contest will be cutter vs gunship, i happily give outfitting advice to Falter
Whatever is scenario, 1 thing is certain, nice to have 2 extra small internals on small ships and DBS especially, it lacked it heavily, definitely that fight with Falter would last longer with 3d mrp, now can have it and scoop, huge buff to small ships, in practice armour resistances go up by ~10% and integrity by ~30%, not to mention ability to buff shields with guardian stuff, those are huge differences in PVP, that i m sure FD wasn't aware or care(more likely) when made changes.
But back on topic of seekers and utilities
Dev's have soft spot for all or nothing mechanics in Elite, this lead to outfitting battles when similar skilled players engage, i remember my 3 fights vs Papa Lazarou chieftain, in all he was flying shieldless gimbal multis+rails chief vs my lr PA FAS, 2 first fights i was dominated flying hybrid with single chaff, small change to 2 chaff with no shields changed outcome from something like lost with ~40% hull damage done and win with 60% hull lost in second one! So 1 chaff made like 4000 hull difference in exchange.
I wonder why ECM cant affect both seekers and gimbals, chaff could affect micro gimbal targeting too, with just difference drawbacks.