Now before anyone says yes i know the porpoise exists yet i would consider that ship a tech 1 orca rather then a tech 2 noctis due to it simply functions completely different from the noctis.
Now what i had in mind something we simply don’t have is a ship that would be capable of using the full compliment of gas harvester so a tech 2 noctis would have bonuses to gas harvesters. Here’s the other thing all ships in the current state of the game that have bonuses to gas harvesting can not use 5 gas harvesters/scoops the max is 3 therefore the skill feels somewhat pointless to max it out.
Having this tech 2 noctis having 5 harvesters the gas gathering tool for barges would bring the noctis haul into popularity. Rather then the current state of the tech 1 noctis being far too expensive for what it is good for due to portable tractor beam devices that are simply better are available have kinder render them obsolete.
So giving the tech 1 noctis the ability to use 5 scoops the frigate version with slight bonuses to them would give more value to having the noctis.