...there's absolutely nothing wrong with preferring a specific theme or look to your collection at all...If you're picking the expansion up anyway, why not give it a try?
Autothrusters, my poor bank account, and the 'meh' StarViper
The Starviper has grown on me, it's interesting and cool in a scummy way that all the SOTE ships are. It's had 20 years to find its place and I think it has. It makes a really cool toy for kids too, with the wings folding and stuff. The E-wing however is a piece of crap with silly gun and engine placement as well as stepping on the X-wing's toes while also looking like the x-wings' buck tooth country cousin. And it's been around longer than the Starviper but it still hasn't found its place. With the T-70 and T-85 being canon I can only hope the e-wing will be relegated to the status of 'prototype' or a Lego variant (which had the top mounted gun as a turret, infinitely better than a fixed-breach-loading annoyance).
Or, just nerf TLT a bit.
TLT needs to be borderline OP to be prevalent enough to stop the game from devolving into the utter wasteland that was the wave 4-5-6 meta.
Your stupid ice cream smeared fat ship is still good and quad TLT isn't actually that common. Go play Boostwing some place else.
Good, Good! Let the rage flow through you!