Ended up making several adjustments to fit my mechanical preferences/paradigms, most notably switching the gyros to other things, and converting more parts to thrusters.
Full review posted in discussion.

Converted most of the blank hulls into thrusters, the gyros into cargos/other systems (along with the framework), and torpedo storages into misc things, since at this patch of game it's really hard for me to justify using torpedoes.

IMO there's no need for gyros on this build, thrusters, directional and regular, are just generally better since they provide lateral movement, much more valuable than the rotation gyros provide. A yaw/pitch of about 1 is quite decent, to 0.3 for late game.

I shuffled generators/engines/thrusters around internally as well for taste and to fit in shield generators, and ended up with no energy containers.
The hangar ports worked really nice, "fighter stuck on dock" was rare!
I think i would have liked some more variety and cubic-like internal frames, as those are more optimal use of space due to margins for hangar/cubes, but that's a minor detail.

Also not sure what Turret Bases are for on an early game ship? I have been using the nose Edge pieces for turrets, and several flank edges for point defense. Late game added some PD to the stern as well. I enjoy this because the camera is set above the ship, so the player will generally be aiming upwards.

The white glow of the center "body" holograms covers white hud arrows (object detected/selected that point "down" will be unvisible). About the only downside to note about the visual design.

The wings as expected are quite helpful with making docking easier! Though it does, along with the body hologram, screw with AI targetting (as hall holograms do) and they'll target that instead of the body. (Avorion bug/exploit)

Used this ship design exclusively from start to finish.

Overall a very very usable player ship, and quite nice to look at too.

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