No thanks. This discussion is far to interesting. Considering how binding works for gear, and some furniture, it's rather odd that airship parts can be easily passed around. If this becomes standard practice, I'm not sure how long it will be allowed to continue.
As for SE "not touching how players play," I'm not sure I completely agree with you there. They have been making adjustment, and playing the occasional killjoy, for quite some time now (pretty much every update). Or perhaps you were referring to something else, and used improper wording?
The real issue isn't what happened, or how it's handled. What I find most troubling is how easily it can get out of hand, and how the current policies basically allow it to get that way. I'd imagine if and when it does eventually get to that point, I'm going to wager they'd do a bit more than simply hide behind their robot responses. You may not like it, but I really don't see it going any other way but in that direction.