It would be cool if it was possible to assign targets to drones without actually sending them out, and then to send them all out simultaneously with the press of a button. Quite like if you paused the game (obviously impossible), issued your orders and then resumed the game.

The advantage of this would be to minimize the damage guardians can do to drones and ship parts because they are all busy with their attackers at the same time. With larger groups of mixed-type guardians I think you will often find it necessary to give every single of your drones an individual order, which takes noticable time, even if you are very fast. Time enough so that some guardians can target drones attacking their neighbors, or sometimes even time enough to walk around and directly attack your ship.