To me, a lot of ships are ugly, few are nice, many grow on you.

I think all ships should be left the way they are. They are creative and each have their own looks to each their owners.
If you don't like how a ship looks, deal with it or just don't fly it so you don't have to look at it.

Whats wrong with these ships? I loved all the old ships. Incursus is take it or leave it, but Exequror and tristan were amazing in their old models. So was Moa. I loved the old maller, and if you will notice, the confessor shares similarities to all these new ship models being crapped out by CCP: they have these long spindly pylon things sticking out and paddles, and/or they look like frisbees (blackbird, orthrus).

The old ship designs all had racially based architecture, from smooth and streamlined (amarr) , to lumpy/curvy and asymmetrical (gallente), to blocky and utilitarian (caldari), and finally spindly, pylons, narrow yet rectangular (minmatar).

They've started flushing all the uniqueness of ship designs into some homogenized half-assed copypasta models. Maybe they're not paying their art department enough. Maybe they fired the old team. Maybe a higher up is pushing for bad ship models.

Do those models look good? Sure. Do they take away from the flavor of EvE? Definitely. They look like free domain spaceship artwork you can find anywhere on the web instead of being the old models that were definitely inspired designs...

...Simple minds like simple designs. Asymmetry is not simple.

Unfortunately for your philosophy some game companies like to have A a cohesive aesthetic and B modern graphical quality. This means old things need to be updated so they dont stick out when compared next to new things.

Why is that a bad thing? Stick out because you had good ideas and the game succeeded to this day based on those ideas. Why flush em to "look like everyone else"?

Also, the tristan lost its elegance and became fugly with those side bulges that were added to it, and the loss of the smaller side wing.

My 2 isk.