dual ichors are actually better for that now, if you can bother to get the research goin for em. Nami Skyla might also be great for coptering?
Also yeah, galatine is... in a wierd place. On one hand it gets a special stance (I think?), that results in pretty big AoE, but it's damage is greatly reduced. melee 2.0 slapped around a lot of heavy weapons pretty badly. Faster weapons are now vastly better however. The dragon nikana/dakra prime are both solid candidates for "best melee weapon" these days. dragon nikana flinches every hit, which has obvious uses, and dakra is just pure dps.
I will also say what old UI's looked like did not strike me as "bio organic" in the slightest.
It actually struck me as "it took me fifteen minutes and a consultation by a person that played the game to figure out how to equip a weapon" in the first iteration. Second, and longest lived, iteration was actually pretty nice and a good situation to be in, which if this is what you're referring to, I totally agree. And I believe this is the third iteration, which basically seems to be the same thing but with less fancy and more boxes.
So I guess what I'm saying is if nenjin came in with the second iteration (I forget precisely when it went up, Sometime between update like... 9 - 11, I suppose I can agree.
The space map is totally shit right now though, I can agree with that. Ring of words! What mission is what? Where's the first mission? What are the types? Levels? Mouse over for all this!
I came in after a long hiatus to that and it was genuinely kind've hard to see what was what. That may be more the small type, to be fair, but that shouldn't be happening either.