Well as a matter of fact it does have 5 Carrier bays and huge amount of Cargo which is thought for having a Mobile Base. With its current condition I can only think of a Mobile Base. In the past, it was worth for jump tradings, but now since they removed its ability to Jump with others its simply... Well as you said useless. Its Cruise Speed should realy increase, I mean srsly even if it'd take like 3 mins to charge at least you'd be able to have a nice Cruise Speed to move somewhere.