What's the reason for giving them such substantial baseline cargo capacities when compared to the present? Restricting the capacity of an industrial has obvious purpose in restricting player mobility, but I suppose that genie has been out of the bottle for some time now with Warp to Zero and Titan Bridges.

Isn't 4,5,6 covered by the Orca?

Personaly I like idea of making superfluosu Mini and Gallente haulers specialised for specific cargo types, such as ice, minerals, gas, or allow them to provide specialised service such as fleet hangar or fitting. I would balance that by making general cargo ships for Matar and Gallente inferior to those of Caldary and Amarr. This way when one decides what industrial line to skill in to he would chose between access to specialised ships (Minmatar and Gallente line) or superior general cargo ships (Amarr and Caldari)

Now, let me address the point about any "Unfair" or remarks about homogenization(sp?), the fact that you are changing the skillset for all of these ships to be accessible at industrial level I really invalidates any argument that one race can/can't have capabilities of another. By dropping the skills necessary down to such a low level, it should not be a concern anymore because the training for any ship in any of those races can be easily attained.

If three of those ships are useless, does it matter?

The cost is time, and while there is a difference per se, the difference would be negliable. Oh, as a Gallente pilot you just need to train Gallente Industrials 1, where as a Minmatar pilot would have to train Gallente Frigate to III before going to Gallente Industrials I? the training difference would still be less than a day, plus it would give the Minmatar pilot the benefit of trying another race (which most will likely do anyways).

"Planetary Commodities Hold Capacity 1,000 m3"
"Command Center Hold Capacity 2,000 m3"

that's the reason the primae is never undocked, not because specialised holds are bad. most t1 industrials in their current state are bigger than those bays. when was the last time you saw an orca undock? see? specialised bays are fine, if they are of a size to be useful.

Orcas have a much higher skill point investment though than T1 haulers, and are much much much more expensive.

It's a core principle of EVE that people should be allowed to make bad choices.

People keep saying this but it is simply not true. It would be if there was a counterpart for the other races. If you don't want to train missiles, its okay because you can train lasers. In this case, there is no option for Caldari or Amarr to counter balance, even if it was a different bay.

Really that would just be a penalty to the Gallente and to a lesser extent the Minmatar. To be honest I'd rather not be relegated to 5 mediocre industrial ships, all of which failing to compete directly with competitors just because a few now even more lackluster in-between's.

Being flexible is useless in EVE. When you train for an industrial, you want to do something with it. Not just have a range of roles. So you'll train for the specialized one you need, not for the wide but bad category. People want efficiency.