IMO, not gona happen anything to capital ships. 86 was right example, when devs tryed to change players attitude to cruisers, which were unpopular in 85. They did it in way we have it now... cruiser with same setup can solo any ship, from battleship to fighter. Which is kinda, hell, it completely STUPID!!!!! No matters of skills and experience, but cruiser should not be able to solo battleship. Well, but how it's sayed: Nobody cares. There is no more such battleship spam, just more annoying cruiser spamn.
However, I think, we are demanding to much from a game, which was made for fighter only. Making indeed balanced capital ships system and stats would probably take greater time to be made, and greater efort, so, let's be happy or not with what we have now.