they just need to be rebalanced for the system. fighters and FC in general will stagnate at some point. because...lets face it. a T18 ship will only become so powerful even after you load it with Oly gear. as new content is introduced it will continue to fall behind and wont stop until they figure out a way to either balance it for higher tech slaves or give more options than what we have.

And fighters are only a part of it really.. They can be really useful, but just too squishy and take up a LOT of space for what they do compared to missiles. And higher tier ones are expensive and really painful to loose.

The general gist is simply that a pair of Selens or Scruplings on FC can give much higher more reliable DPS over a longer period of time then EFBCs loaded down with fighters.