I think it may work out well actually. One of the devs in one of the videos actually mentioned that you can fit smartbombs on it. They also mentioned it will have very beefy armor tank, much more skewed towards armor vs shield then what is currently available in game.
So I think with that in mind, you can most likely make an ubber armor / smartbomb fit with a disintegrator turret making it to be a very short range brawler fit.
I do not know about any of the actual stats and performance of the long range ammo for the disintegrator. If its not good then these ships may be altogether end up primarily short range / brawler types as sniping fits on them may end up sucking real bad.