I do not doubt your honesty in what you are saying.
Let me just say that I have 50 ships where you have 15, and I dont find the number 50 impressing because there are people who dont speak english but who have 200 , and my intention while building those 50 was never even to make credits or build a fleet, but just to test how the game works now-a-days, compared to 2013 or 2008.
It doesnt matter if you made your money mining or hauling, to me, to game balance, or to any pirate.
It just matters that no one balancing these things seems to even remotely understand whats actually going on.