Ah yes, the good ol constructor spam. I actually managed to greatly alleviate that issue by making a small mod myself that doubles a starbases range and removes exclusivity on modules. So I can build 1 starbase that covers a whole system and provides mining/economy/military etc .  Makes starbases significantly more enjoyable, though why it requires a mod to remove the base games tedium (you wants to build 3-4 starbases per system??) and hasnt already been addressed after these many months is baffling. I did read somewhere about a future redesign of starbases so hopefully it will get fixed properly, one day...

I ALWAYS disable surrender ever since it became available. The AI surrender for the stupidest reasons.

Perhaps we can have an option to send ships to a shipyard and instead of fortifying it you can choose an option to scrap them. Although that will require yet another click to decide between the two options. 

(you wouldn't want to build another orbital building called scrapyard to avoid the click -- would you?)

Once, I had a lot of tiny ships build before and that I do not want.

Instead of searching them and decommisionning one by one, I "sold" them to a minor faction.

I did not got a lot of money for them, but it was easy to spot them (they had a specific name) and it was just one click to offert them to the minor faction.

I assume it would work for ships coming from a faction that surrender to me.

Sorry for my English, I'm not a native speaker.