This is a great point.
Though ultimately, I wish we had an electronic warfare corvette which would do things like enhanced targeting.
I don’t see why a Cruiser shouldn’t be able to fire a bunch of missiles and torps at a fighter from 12km away. I just think it should require pinging from an EW corv first.
They could before hardpoint HP was heavily buffed so random stray fire didn’t kill them 
I wish the shields were projected and that fighters/bombers could go under the shields to destroy them easily.