In my opinion the Bowhead’s fitting design is terrible.
Freighters have very limited fitting options, but while those options are very limited, they are reduced to the meaningful choices: agility, warp speed, cargo, tank.
The Bowhead may have more slots, but seems to have fewer viable fitting options. MWD in the mids, so agility isn’t necessary. Cargo isn’t needed either due to the specialised bay, so all you’re left with is tank (or warp speed, but I doubt players would choose that). Bowhead has more slots, but only seems to have one viable fit.
If it were up to me, the Bowhead should get the same treatment the other freighters have: fewer fitting slots, but many meaningful options.