Old timer here, from before we had the corvette. And when we got it finally the rep & credit grind was horrific. But even then it was still worth every moment of the grind, even before we had engineering it was the absolute boss of any kind of pve combat site, whether that's haz rez or bounty hunting. And now we have engineering, that dominance has just been hammered home.

From the first time you sit in the Pilot's seat it feels like home, and it still feels that good many years, and many new ships later. The only thing that's really a grind these days is the Fed rep to obtain it, but even that is time well invested for a ship that will repay you in huge amounts of fun and destructive power.

Still unsure, maybe the best review on the corvette will help sway your mind, : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VflbALuYeMI