Well let's just be all honest here. Caps were added back then, added for everybody important back then, just to have a cool ship. Times changed, disco became more rpish. Some utterly unfitting things like phantoms decided to go. Some utterly ufnitting things, like sair ossies and weird, i.e. unlawful, bunter or zoner battleships in general, did not. And in order to make it fair for other people other things to counter that are getting added, like more weird battleships.
I'd frankly love battleship weapons to be rebalanced in a way that does not let them shoot fighters really, and to remove bots from caps, and to make it impossible for fighter to hurt bs. So that they paths don't cross. Or actually add some bombers that can kill battleships easily but then they're being eaten alive by fighters, not like now, and we'll have a fleet battles but no capganks. Fun!