"Board Enemy Ships" strategy bug?

[Q]

I just recently got interested in boarding so perhaps this has already been discussed:
When a ship has "Board Enemy Ships" as primary movement strategy it avoids enemy ships unless there are ships with no shields. Even if you give your boarding ships weapons like shield depleters they will not attack the enemy until other ships knocked out the shields. If you use any other primary movement strategy and "Board Enemy Ships" as secondary movement the ship will attack with their weapons but never board (at least that's what I've seen in the combat simulator).
Second the boarding ships try boarding even in the presence of an intact self destructing devive. So you could easily destroy all enemy boarding ships by presenting them escort ships without shields but with a self destructing device. However the boarding ships will not try boarding when the enemy ship has more security stations than the boarding ship can successfully overcome.

Has anyone made different observations or found a possibility to overcome these problems?
Would you agree that this is a bug?