When battle is very rough and requires high focus, its kinda hard to track friendly ship status. I remember some old game(like freespace and nexus the jupiter incident) got monitoring system for friendly/enemy ship status so you know the status of the friendly ships easier without keeping an eye on them.
What i am suggesting is adding something like that to the game where you can put important ship's status to your monitoring system as well as enemy ship status. Maybe as a skill you can learn later in the game. Like by selecting your friendly ship on tactical view and pressing a key to monitor its status without keep pausing the game and checking its status on tactical view.
Maybe as skill?
Edit: I just wonder is it possbile to mod something like this? It is an idea for modders too