If you sacrifice about 50m/s by using full size HRPs, you can squeeze out about 500 more integrity, and run a small biweave.
You’ll still be able to outrun missiles, and you modules won’t be exposed so often.
650 will run down anything in the game beyond other ultra light ships with EPTs.
For sure you can, but I find I have far more motivation to win fights when not flying something tanky.
Same reason I refuse to use the borderline credit exploits.
No risk, no reward.
Something very noticeable after flying small tin cans often is that when you do get in something that can take more than a few hits you're capable of some serious butt kicking and that is just a great feeling.
EDIT: Also you get higher numbers on your movement profiles whilst being lighter. Not all gains are in speed. Hence why tanky ICouriers handle like a bag of spanners compared to the lighter weight ones.