so ive last been playing this game at 1.1 and decided to have another go at it.. but before i start, please tell me whether theyve addressed my major annoyance in one of the subsequent updates:

you keep researching new, better ship techs all the time. i remember being warlike drengin _and_ having a good research, i was getting a new wpn/defense/drive every few turns. and every damn time, i had to check back at my shipyard to upgrade all my current war ship designs (make that all ship desings whatsoever for new propulsion techs).
remove the obsolete component, stack up the new one. maybe shift around if some place was left.. save the new design under new name. for large eye-candy ships, add some seconds loading time to every other step i just mentioned.

is there at least an option now to update obsolete components in a slightly easier way? when the main part of your game time consists of manually upgrading stuff, it's sucking out the pleasure for me.