If this game gets any slower or crappier I'm just going to stop playing entirely.
Is this a continuum? Can we find a happy medium where you quit bombing people's threads with complaints but don't ragequit the game? The Squid can still dogfight. I do it all the time. And it's a blast. I would like to see it lose a little mass, but that would turn it into a bouncy ball on collisions. Maybe a slightly better turn rate. It's not broken or unusable the way it is. On topic:
Squids use the vertical tools to evade and engage, Pyramidions to keep an opponent in their gunsights, as well as other applications, but I'd caution OP against using those tools in a Spire. The Spire is so tall it's not an effective way to evade vertically, and if you use chute vent ... you are going to shatter like a glass knife on the ground. Buffing a balloon is, especially now, generally preferable to using those tools; I still carry them because I want other components buffed instead.
I don't know how they work with the Mobula and its quick climbs and descents, since I don't fly one.