Honestly they probably need to hit a certain point for Armada to justify the resources that they spend on it. Releasing this and seeing how much interest it generates will determine their plans for the future. And if they get released as singles later on they'll have more of a design space to add additional things into the pack. Yes it's annoying but that's life sometimes.

2 hours ago, Atromix said:

The exact phrasing in response to being asked if the ships in the starters will be available separately was "That's the kind of thing we're looking at doing down the road, Initially we're just pushing out the starters and squadron packs." To me, his use of Initially seems to just be referring to the first wave with the starters and squadron packs, and that the ships being released separately would be releasing later on. I'm guessing in a wave or two. Whilst I'm not a big fan of this, it does seem that we will be getting separate releases at some point and not "No plans".

I hope you are right!