Stick ships spinning wildly

I recently returned to Avorion and started an expert playthrough on the beta branch and am well into Xanion tier. Most trinium and xanion pirate ships are these long, toothpick shapes that spin so comically fast when I shoot them that anything living inside would be liquified. This makes them incredibly difficult to hit and breaks any semblance of immersion. I found a reddit post from 8 years ago complaining about the same thing, so I don't think it's a beta branch problem. Am I missing something, or have people just been living with this problem for years? Do I just have a bad galaxy seed?