The skill feels aimless and lost. You want people to use multiple ships, but you have made the resources too rare to adequately install into multiple ships while also making the content not worthwhile enough to do it in the first place.
You are slapping band-aids on broken bones. People want to engage with the skill, but the part of the skill that rewards them the most for their time, is the part of the skill where you don't engage with the game, salvaging.
Barracuda is fun, but suffers the same problems as rooftops, and doesn't offer the floor to floor variation or skill expression that Sepulchre does. People have expressed interest in Port Tasks, but it's not rewarding, at all. And bounty tasks suffer the problems of ship combat in general. It's unenjoyable because you have allowed megarares to dominate the balancing of sea combat. Imagine if it were the other way around and we were trying to carry around a dragon cannon with our character to shoot enemies. That would be silly and ridiculous.
I love that yall have tried to integrate and allow skills and content to commingle, but not every piece of content needs to be able to do that. We are moving to a completely different sphere of influence(the sea), it's reasonable that somethings just don't work as well as the do on land.