The problem is there is hidden cancer of current meta - namely bombs - it effectively makes some fragile ships unplayable or auto losing against certain match ups.
Unfortunately many players behave like a flock of sheep complaining about supposed imbalance of Palpatine, not seeing brokeness of bombs - well my guess is novelty of this toxic archetype is still obscuring proper judgement for some people.
But give it some time - I bet in a month or two there will be many threads complaining about bombs, Sabine and K-Wings.