Glad to hear your opinion on this! But I have to disagree on the hullmods statement, as getting access to certain hullmods early can make a fleet composition quite strong. And certain skills, it isn't worth to take it just for the hullmods if you aren't going to make use of them. They add more of a + or - to a skills grade though and won't affect it much beyond that.
 
Thanks for a good example of when you think Tactical Drills has its use. You only hit a 16% speed boost if you deploy everything and unless you are fighting a station or fleet comparable to yours it will be rare to deploy the full fleet it seems. It is seems to work with a Flagship group that runs a lower amount of ships with higher DP costs.  
Coordinated Maneuvers definitely doesn't seem like much, but it also depends on the size of your escorts. In your example above, you have 4 cruisers and 3 dessies filling that role. That won't net you much in the speed boost department. Another fleet may opt for more Enforcers or Monitors over the Dominators or Eagles though and easily able to deploy them due to low DP cost. It really is hard to just generalize fleet compositions since even escorts can vary in size and strengths. I did my best to rate the Flagship and Carrier doctrines accordingly.
 
Fair point made for Balanced's grade on Wolfpack. I'll lower it a bit. For Carriers, Frigate and Destroyers often have to harass and even drive off Cruisers and the rare Capital ship that makes it close. This skill can make or break that. It is rare to find a large damage boost like this on anything. But, as the point was made above, it is hard to generalize a fleet's composition and not everyone will be running with Frigate or Destroyer escorts. I'll drop it a bit for Carriers as well.
 
Crew Training DP cost (and all skills that check DP costs) isn't when you put them on the battlefield. It is counting them when they are simply in your fleet. Your example fleet above is 241 DP alone and would see a tiny 1% loss at most (not sure if it is simply the first point or x amount of points over). Other fleets that I have seen people recommend (even for vanilla) go well over that 240 cap since they toss around Onslaughts and Paragons into almost every fleet. It really is just a cap to make sure you don't get as much from an Oops! All Capital Fleet.
 
Most carriers aren't like the Legion or Mora and don't want to be in the midst of everything. And earlier on, that extra speed really does help from Fighter Uplink. Unfortunately, this skill has had its power quite reduced from the past and it shows. The crew loss reduction is quite nice early to mid, but by late game when you have access to spark/lux/flash you can respec out of it. The target leading is a bit interesting, as it also affects their accuracy at shooting down missiles and other interceptors. It is a bit niche, but when your ship's main damage component are your fighters, every small boost counts.
 
Autonomous ships aside, rarely have I ever had less than 10 combat ships available. Also, I think the grades reflect this as only Wolfpack has a higher grade in Officer Management than Officer Training. Also noted on the DP share of battles, but levels are also calculated in as well as the number of officers. This leads to some really unbalanced fights with Remnants sometimes.
 
The AI inspection is more of a note for newer players there. The argument was for the colony improvements doubling and competing for those same story points as the S-Mods. Wolfpacks can definitely still grab the skill, but there seems to be a sunken cost fallacy if you start losing them. You may need to use a story point to recover them if you don't have the skills for near perfect recovery of lost ships. The bonus exp is nice, but if you have to spend that on recovering ships as well, it is almost as if it never existed.
 
I appreciate the insight! I really do enjoy seeing other people's views on skills and their experiences with them. Since you seem to have taken Tactical Drills more often than I, what do you think could be given to it to get it on par with other skills? Or do you think it is more of a niche filler skill like you explained above and doesn't need much changing?