But in the context of having dismissed the value of comparison. It's much easier to say "X is a damn good Y ship" when you've explicitly decided not to compare it to other ships that are objectively better than it. I know you're a reasonable type, I'm therefore a bit confused by this take.
The entire problem with that argument is that then in the end it leaves only 3 possible ships in the game, 1 small ship, 1 medium ship and 1 large ship because all the rest are redundant, you just need the best small ship and scrap everything else, the best medium ship and scrap everything else and the best large ship and scrap everything else.
The only possible responce ot that argument is to get rid of the Type 7 altogether because there are better ships and it's therefore redundant. Why bother shrinking the Type 7 to a medium pad when there's already a medium ship that's much better than it in every way? Just get rid of it completely.