I don't miss Kaiten

I don't understand the sadness over an extra step being eliminated.
The game isn't being converted to single player. It's being made more accessible to those that might try it out that way. There's nothing wrong with that and there's potential for those people to join in the MP fun.
Frankly, the game is already very much single player as it's been with the ability to just queue up into parties and get stuff done and not really have to deal with people otherwise.
Duty Support is nothing new. We've had squadrons for some time now. Hopefully, those will see some improvement.
Housing should be scrapped and redone, but they won't do that. They're kinda stuck with it.