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they kinda just sounds like a bad idea... all that would do is cause people to brick tank their ships with no damage mods for any fight expected to get that large. E-war would become pointless as you would no longer need it for application or reducing incoming damage. Resists would go out in favor of Raw HP. there would be no need for sub commanders as logi and E-war become less relevant.

currently Logi and alpha are what give us the need for good FCs and even mid sized fights are full of sub FCs for E-war Logi sub cap and capital DPS.

in these fights you are not trying to kill every enemy ship you "win" once the enemy DPS can no longer get through your reps. for some reason many people find this dull and a problem with RR and alpha. Really it puts you into a tactical environment much more like real combat. Where you are not annihilating the enemy army in a battle but breaking them and forcing a retreat.

Rubbish.
Resists would matter because it would mean more DPS ships need to engage you to hit your DPS cap.
Ewar would not become irrelevant because it would still be key to break DPS incoming on your key ships or logi repping their key ships.
And it would mean you could always break reps on a ship but it would be a slower thing allowing the targeted pilot time to actually fight, rather than instant death

Alpha is what removes the need for decent squad commanders as soon as you hit instant volley size.

Ahahaha nope

Sorry Lugh but your wrong, the modules are changing from 3 different modules with different attributes to 1 module with 3 different types of "ammo" (silly idea). Orca especially will be hit hard by this. It has 3 highslots of which (since barge and exhumer buffs capacitor link is redundant, unless you run an active tank) 2 can be used for links, 1 for a tractor beam to more easily scoop cans.
Post November, all 3 highslots will be used for links, 2 for mining, 1 for shield. NB; Shield link will make little difference in a pvp situation, your orca gets red boxed, consider it dead. They just aren't designed to survive or defend themselves.

IMO the visual is only there to make it easier for the opposing side to see who to primary. Devs expectation is that every fleet will have numerous boosters travelling with them, so to make it easier for opposing fleets to see who is boosting at a given time, they included a target marker (visual effect).

Just to let everyone know, we currently plan on releasing the blueprints for the command burst charges in our October release so people can start building them in prep for the changeover in November.

Nice to hear that the next dev blog is on its way!

I totally agree, that not every link needs an equal counterpart in the new system ; If everyone gets slightly worse boosts the prices might go up a little and it wont change much for the average miner. Considering this, it's pretty important to know if the Rorqual will be able to move while the indu-core is activated... If not, big alliances with the ability to form defense fleets at any given time will get better boosts most of the time, and the income of the average miner will drop. --> 10% less income is a pretty big deal if you have to mine for 25 hours a month just to pay the plex (i just wanted to post it so i can be salty if things dont work out the way i want them to :-P )

If the Rorqual IS able to move while boosting at full potential and lots of them are on grid, i'd say the boosts are fine the way they are. Having boosts for mining drones would not really help, since players willing to field a rorqual will most likely be willing to use hulks for maximum yield... long story short: the cargohold is too small for 2 cycles + drones, even without a boost for them.
If, on the other hand, you could assign your drones to your booster ship and fill it's cargo with ore this kind of boost could be REALLY great and encourage bigger mining fleets since the booster ( for example the Porpoise withput mining-fighters) would be able to profit while helping other people without an own boosting char...

A pretty gimmicky alternative would be an increased range for interactions with containers and fleet-hangars. a 50 km boost range does not really help it the whole mining op has to stay within 2.5 km of a container... good for people who actually use containers, but totally useless if you warp to a station/pos to drop off the ore. (but i guess the crystal preservation link is useless unless you actually use crystals...)

Explain? Don't see any problem with mining missions.

Or you know, stick the new Porpoise in a Belt. or heck, even stick a T1 BC in the belt.

Same reason you mined with boosts before, it was more effective than mining without them.

This is the only part of your rant worth a reply.
However you are going the wrong way. Don't magically change the game to allow non PvP play immunity.
Change the ships to have real fittings so they can fit weapons & fit active tanks, prop mods & the rest of it that combat ships fit.
The real problem is CCP trying to make modern industrial concepts from a time of effective peace (For industry anyway) work in an environment more akin to the spanish main with constant piracy and attacks on said vessels.
They built 'Industrial' tanks in WW2 for bridging, trench filling, mine clearing and all the rest of the works that were equally armoured and had guns that gave them a fighting chance, (if not as good as a dedicated CBT) they can do the same with the mining vessels. And no the Procurer is not already there, it has next to no cap, half the slots of a cruiser, no internal weapons, only a single flight of light drones (Compared to the Full flight of sentries certain cruisers get), no PG & no CPU relative to cruisers also.

This is though, a topic for another thread (Like the mining barge revamp thread in fact, where it's already been brought up).
And nothing to do with boosts.