I guess people here have never played pre .9 versions when custom order ship was not a thing and you work with whatever you can obtain.
It’s fundamentally missing expectation and misunderstanding of game design goal. Player can get all blueprints but it definitely shouldn’t be the baseline.
For older players, the ability to custom order ship is already too much and makes the game very easy, comparing to old days when you can only salvage or get commissioned and purchase in military markets. I myself is happy to work with any blueprint I can find, and if I want a specific blueprint I can always raid for it. There is no reason why reverse engineer need to be a thing.
I don’t understand the relationship between tech mining and reverse engineer tbh. It’s mostly referring to archeology activities that looks for relics of domain technology, as suggested by lore.