How would this work?

Incoming DPS is too high for small boosters to do anything with.

Small shields will get neglected in favor of MASBs if medium extenders are put out of reach of frigs.

It's also I would say useful sometimes to see how changes work out knowing that we have the flexibility to revisit and perhaps do more due to the way we now release features. I would anticipate some revisiting once we've done the basic sweep through modules in the current effort.

Stratios got massively buffed by the plate changes. Stratios has 1150 PG, which currently lets you fit two 1600mm plates and a MWD, but nothing else, so 2x 1600mm plate fits aren't viable unless you want to use Genolutions, storyline MWD, or storyline 1600mm plates, all of which are obscenely expensive.

After these changes, you can just fit two Syndicate plates which actually have more HP than T2 plates do now, and won't be that expensive. (27000 LP and no tags) The result is a ship that can fit an expanded probe launcher and a cloak and still do 500-600 DPS of whatever damage type it wants alongside having ~70,000 EHP. Use a reactive armor hardener when hunting ratters (they do the same damage type as the rats) and your EHP will be much higher. Even though you'll be relatively slow when double plated, it's still rather difficult to catch a ship with a covops cloak and a MWD.