For whatever it's worth I wanted to take a bit of time from my evening and agree with JDCollie as well. I'm pretty sure there's a post from me early on in this thread complaining about OPs (although I think there were even lower back then?), but at this point I'm quite happy with where TuP ships are-- particularly as a part of UsS.
It's really quite nice to have a large variety of ships that both fit with existing factions and aren't necessarily better than existing vessels. Many of them represent interesting tradeoffs compared to their vanilla brethren, they encourage use of some of the lower OP (and seemingly often less popular) weapons, and you can generally count on reasonable logistics costs. Been playing one of the recent daily builds of UsS specifically faction-less and have really grown to appreciate TuP ships, particularly ones that initially seemed pretty 'meh' like the Void and the Phoenix. Still having trouble seeing a use for the Hermit, though.
If anything, it's the fact that so many of these ships make me think "if only I could squeeze in that bigger gun..." that makes them enjoyable. Making the most of those limited OPs and quirky weapon arcs encourages experimentation.