I don’t think they realize just how popular t3 pirate skins would be. People would shell out big money for a Serpentis Proteus or Blood Raider Legion; making them exclusive to the yearly events for each of them would be a good way to introduce that.
There’s already a serpentis and angel cartel Hecate, so they’re definitely looking at it. I think the issue with the strat cruisers specifically is that they have to treat each new subsystem configuration as its own ship for graphics purposes, so the development time for any one of them