I like the new feature that alters the attitude of the ship based on the officer flying that ship.
Unfortunately, there's a limit to how many officers you can have, thus meaning that, in large battles (or early on when you have not acquired a large number of officers yet), you'll have to field many ships without officers flying them.
The problem here is that the default behavior of a ship without an officer appears to be "reckless", as they have an annoying tendency to break formation and charge head-first into large groups of ships with complete disregard for their own survival (even if they have no weapons equipped!). This is especially annoying with carriers like the Drover, which are supposed to be timid by default due to their poor defensive and offensive capabilities when using anything other than talons in their flight decks.
I think combat would be more enjoyable if the default ship behavior was made more cautious so that ship losses wouldn't be so illogical and unavoidable all the time.