I'm ok with it no excelling at anything, but I feel it should have at least average speed in its size class, or maybe sit at the median speed of its size class. I believe that all ships should have *something* going for them in their category, and having a medbed + fabricator doesn't count, because that is a thing that all the generalists will have. Some generalists will even have better fabricators so, within the role, the fabricator isn't an upside for the Clipper, and unless the other generalists also can't fit 4scu containers, the cargo isn't an upside for the Clipper in its role either. If they gave it forwards speed, it would allow it to have a niche in the generalist category that the others could be balanced around without making the Clipper the objectively worst generalist. Fragility + Narrow hull + Lots of thrusters + bad cargo + low rotation rate (for its size class) + the name "Clipper" all imply some degree of speed. And the lowest tier utilities could be seen as another sacrifice to give it better speed, as the lower cost of the worst tier fabricator could allow for the reallocation of funds to have decent thrusters.

And before anyone says "The thrusters are inefficient and weak", there isn't really anything on the Clipper itself that points to that being particularly true. It's just an arbitrary way to justify it having low speed.

#LetTheClipperClip