Drone and Anti-Drone Tactics?

[Jourin]

The purpose of drones is to do missions you would not assign to manned ships.

High risk recon like a warp point in a contested sector.
Mine clearing when the chance of a mine sweeper being destroyed.
Raming or the cruise missile attack.

I have waited for drones primarily for the first two abilities and I still won't have them. Currently drones are only working 1/3 of the time. Of course it is a bug. To say it is a feature is like comparing MM to Microsoft who routinely classifies all their bugs as features. I am very disappointed that MM is releasing the Gold Version with such a major bug! What happened to MM's vaunted "won't release with a know bug policy"!

Again I am very disappointed!