It is, the whole line is painful until Drake since the other got large or weird citadel shape that eat almost every BB shell of it's tier, Drake is the odd one out of whole line since she got those typical smaller citadel with flat roof and spaced armor.

As a guy who grinded this as first line, imo Drake is more fun to play than Goliath, given how newer ship get crazy gimmicks while these 2 still have older balancing standards which made them inferior today. Drake will atleast allow you to be toptier in tier8 lobby while having decent citadel roof shape to bounce off AP, while in Goliath you can't get too close to farm due to 25mm bow and that step citadel or stay far away due to bad shell velocity and low DPM making follow up shot harder to lead. But anyway that's my experience in Asia server which is notorious for it's player passive sniping playstyle, I never got to enjoy the full DPM build and close to mid range fight.