Totally disagree with the VI crit argument. The crit isnt telling you to reduce the PS to 0, it is telling you what the to treat the PS of the ship as which oveerides what the card and your base is doing and would ignore them. This is not an arugment for why boba removing VI wouldnt remove the effect of VI.

The Injured Pilot crit has literally existed the entire time the game has existed. This shouldn't be shocking new territory to cover.

Regarding VI, I would argue that Boba can get rid of it, but the pilot maintains his Pilot Skill. I'm going to reference Injured Pilot to make my case. When you're dealt IP, you become PS0, not PS0+2. Which means that the +2 is already baked into your base PS. Therefore, when you have VI equipped, you're not 7+2, you're 9. And then when VI comes off via Boba, you're still 9.

You're thinking Damaged Cockpit, which makes someone PS0. Injured Pilot discards your EPT and blanks your pilot text box. Injured Pilot has always dropped the PS of a VI pilot hit by it. Bob should do the same.