I'm an average snub pilot, at best. The powercore(1) and mine changes are really nice and feels good, at least, (1)more so to 4.86 - peak. Fighters feel so sluggish, unresponsive and now, I've less capability to give my opponent a harder time by being evasive, because I am unable to be evasive.
Flying a Defender (muh Liberty) that feels slower than an Anubis, Sabre or Titan isn't very intuitive and harms the gameplay loop. I pity the poor souls that daily-drive those ships, or anything remotely slower than the Defender. Ships now feel like they turn like the wasp CD, slow and in wide arcs. Think this nerf to fighter mass will do nothing but encourage sitting and being an immobile turret as they track as you fly on by. Yet another patch with too much at one time, rather on just fixing actual problems (read: mines, CDs, etc.) and just making additional problems by "fixing" what's not broken.
Fighter-craft are intended on being small, light and nimble. Currently mass changes bring VHFs up to bomber level of manoeuvrability, please do actually consider reverting this as it serves to only actively harm average to lower skill levels.