From "Imperial Veterans" to "Saw's Renegades", from "Rebel Aces" to "Heroes of the Resistance", from packaging the TIE Advanced with the Raider to the X-Wing with the Rebel Transport, X-Wing has a history of reskinning older ships and putting them out with some new upgrades. Usually, the ships also get a new paint job. While I've heard criticisms of this strategy because you're being sold ships again that you alreay own, my biggest wish for FFG's production strategy regarding 2.0 (once the old waves are all re-published) is more of these in favor of new ships. Why is that?
On the one hand, this strategy was necessary in 1.0 because after several years, older ships were simply not competitive anymore, so they needed new life. This may well become an issue again down the road, but for the next two or three years, the 2.0 overhaul hopefully will prevent this problem, and the experiences FFG made with Armada might help to avoid it in future (in that game, all ships remain viable seven waves in).
My main argument why I wish for these reskins is another one: it's the pilots. There are quite a number of ships of which you can theoretically field more than one, but in reality, there is only one of them that you can use, and much of this has to do with pilots (and with cost in a few cases, but that's another matter). Consider the E-Wing, for example, or the TIE Silencer. Both are incredibly cool ships, but if I wanted to fly two or three of them (and I really really want to), I'm bumping into a dearth of pilots really soon. Only few ships offer the breadth of pilots I find necessary to really make interesting choices WITHIN the ship type itself (it's no problem combining with other ships, there's a shitton of options there), mostly the X-Wing and the TIE Fighter, with the A-Wing, B-Wing, T70, TIE Bomber, TIE Defender and TIE Interceptor coming up behind.
So what I'd really appreciate is more pilots for ships, bascially. I'd wish for 6+ per ship.