A little disclaimer on the top of the post: I'm not suggesting anything, it's just a little insight to one "balance variable" which, looking at this thread, might not have been obvious enough. So it's basically "something to consider when voting on this proposal" sort of post.

The original intention behind giving some ships more hull and less nanos or less hull and more nanos was to make certain ships more prone to instakills while others more tanky. Granted, that's not really the case unless the pilot is rather careless and doesn't regen in time, so in other words, it was a veiled attempt to add nano use into "skill-tree", so people who were actually familiar with the armor grading of the particular ship they were flying at the time could keep an eye on when to regen (rather than the standardized "regen at 2/3 hull" we had before that), while less experienced pilots could be disposed of more quickly and turned into nanofarms for those who actually push a (group)fight forward. You might say it was somewhat of an elitist move, but sounded like a good idea at the time.

I personally prefer how the "regen threshold" varies between different grades of ship in each class, while some might find it annoying, confusing, or useless. The point is, without little balance touches like this, "Skill" will basically boil down to aim, while toying with certain stats such as this one, would include a flavor of "situational awareness" into the mix, and would in turn mean more skill-oriented dogfights past the point of "how many shots you can hit in any given time".