It dissolves the need for player skill and encourages cheap hit and run tactics because you can straight up destroy almost everything with a single pass.

It encourages less skilled players by making sure they have to stay on target less, and stay in the hot zone for shorter periods of time.

I guess Im just used to my Incubus, particularly now, where if I sit still for even a moment I'm just a fireball waiting to happen. I have no bonus to missiles, and both blasters and rails are laughable vs infantry if you so much as wiggle your ship around.

No, because that would just be a god awful fit. Railgun requires me to be pretty precise and all up in vehicles grills, and my side missiles would only add marginal support while engaging enemy vehicles. Since you have to sit generally still for side missiles to be useful vs infantry (considering no RoF bonus), the slower, easier to hit incubus that takes bonus damage from everything under the sun would just be that much easier to send up in flames if I sat around trying to give my gunners shots while I twiddled my thumbs waiting for a target to appear for my rail.

So while I hunt vehicles with my rail, I'd be wasting two slots for my team with people just sitting in my guns staring at the sky, occasionally landing a hit on the enemy vehicle, but overall not contributing anything meaningful to my AV experience, while vastly reducing the EHP of my already rather vulnerable Incubus. It takes an Incubus significantly longer to accelerate up and away from a hover even with an AB than a Python with no AB does. Also, bonus damage, and the fact that the Incubus weak spot is more pronounced.

It's just all around better to use a front missile and switch to a front rail if vehicle presence is strong. On the rare occasions I bother with a side gun, I always equip a militia missile turret for myself and give my single gunner a rail, since blasters are still a joke.

Honestly ever since I decided to fully skill into the coffins that were Prometheus's, I've given up on team based DS play. I can never find people that want to just sit in my ship and fly around, and picking people up in an Incubus is just death half the time. You just can't get out fast enough and if you get hit by AV while down low, it's so much harder to recover. The maps are too small for it to really matter anyways.

On the off chance I run a side turret I usually just have them hop out, hack a point while I circle the area, then I pick them up as quick as I can and get out, but that's usually how I die. I don't even play anymore, this is just a bug that I've always despised with a passion, so seeing Rattati confirm it as a bug just tickled me pink is all.