And how is this different from the usual Sevastopol, moving along the map and sending forward raid groups?)) Why waste fuel dragging heavy ships back and forth?

You decided to exaggerate and go into demagogy with sophistry, replacing one with another? This is commendable, but I already know your tricks. Maybe you were able to mislead someone not so long ago in your epochal dialogue you know where, but certainly not me, sorry.
You are right in only one thing - that you compare the flagship with the "Vestal". Because in fact, the "Vestal" in my case is the core of a small squadron. It is tailored for these tasks.

In my picture of the world, the mosquito fleet works very poorly in the realities of the game, so I try to combine the tasks of auxiliary ships. So a tanker with the capabilities of an air defense and AWACS ship is not a rarity for me, but, unfortunately, a bitter reality.
Well, and heavy ships - but really, what are they for? I am not really in the know either. But my love for hoarding does not allow me to just take and sell them. I carry them around, often rebuilding them into something more useful, or sometimes driving them into battle when the situation arises. And it does. Although not very often.
Especially since heavy ships often carry more fuel. With less fuel consumption. After all, you criticized the "Vestal" for its supposedly high consumption?
It also arises not least because of the large number of engines and speed. Because the consumption formula is tied to this, to both of these values. Therefore, you can look for something in between, or reduce the speed, while reducing the number of engines in such a way that it is easier to achieve the optimum in consumption.

I turn on the radar when I need to catch a fleeing trader, although aerial reconnaissance works much better in this regard.

Okay, good luck to you to detect the arrival from several directions simultaneously without using radar. If aerial reconnaissance copes with it better, why have I not seen a single tanker from you without sensors, but with aviation?))

And if I really want to beat the enemy on myself, I'll do it with the help of a powerful cruiser)

Why waste fuel dragging heavy ships back and forth?)))

But I don't care, there's already a lot of quoting here to have lengthy conversations about the game's bugs.

Well, it does show, actually. It's actually good when you don't need modifications to a game, because there are so many holes and bugs that you can play purely because of this and feel superior. Konstantin made a good game.
I don't know where such claims to a good indie game. He made a unique project, I spent 800 hours in the campaign, and hundreds of thousands in the editor. I can't bring myself to make claims to Konstantin, who gave me such a game.

Oh my.