Yes, i like "rags to riches" kinda thing, but also not only blueprints exists, there is a forge templates, there is a rare ship market on Prism Freeport, there is a "legends" mod, when you can find coordinates of a nice ship through the bar event, plenty of things. And all of that give some kind of satisfaction when you find a good new "toy", that what you cant just buy on black market for money. And im personally think that Sateen is OP, it can destroy half of the battlefield in mere seconds, dumping flux and pushing with it skill in the same time. Also best looking ship in the game.
So for example Songbird (Tahlan Shipworks), you can't buy it in market, cuz there no Great Houses markets, and when i found it in Prism Freeport rares shop, thought "looks nice", bought it and now its my favourite ship. Later i exchanged blueprint for it on same Prism Freeport. Sateen on the other hand its just 500k buck.
It would be nice to have an option to play Vanilla core worlds, and disable Spindle system, like you did in Tahlan, when you can disable Lethia system.
I know there was no Faction markets in that system, but still, its a great option.