Appearance of pirates:
The pirates appear as a stack, that is, one ship on top of another. This makes it impossible to see how many and which ships there are. It would be better to have the pirates appear in a swarm, then it is easier to decide whether to fight or run.

Superfluous skills:
The Maintenance skill for active modules (e.g. weapons) is superfluous in my opinion, as even after a hard fight (shields down, armor at 30%) the externally mounted modules hardly show any damage. Even intensive use of the modules hardly shows any wear.

+1

on top of this, they spawn almost on top of you. ^^

That is actually a good idea if they spawn closer based on security (just not on top), immersion wise they basically jump to you. Also makes it really more dangerous because otherwise you can always run away easy (if you don't cramp up their speed in game settings)