Newbies know how to regen, but they have much slower reacting and often not using the hotkeys. Battleship fire of 2 second is enough to kill a VHF if it all hits. Considering caps are nearly always in the middle of snubfights they often intakill even more skilled people with sudden fire. But I suppose you wound't know as much as you are not aware of what SNACing the snubs in the real conditions is.
And that's my point smoke, bombers aren't hard counter to anything and they are not universal which is making the whole class useless. There's a better ship for every single task. Thank you for confirming points I tried to make of bombers being killed off as a class.