Bah it could look neather yeah. But it's not a ship you normaly look at. If you in that close you can see the details on your fighter then I must imform you that you are missing the battle. Your especialy missing seeing what your enemy is doing. Me I am normaly zoomed out just enought to have the ship icons appear so I can keep a better track of the battel.
sometimes its nice to zoom in and have a look. i know exactly what the fighters and bombers look like, yet i still like to zoom in sometimes and watch them on strafing runs against enemy targets.
its also important for movies. i personally intend to make some trailers for a mod im working on, and for that im going to need to zoom in on fighters and other small ships.
Some people like to role-play while playing Sins, its not all about desperately fighting the enemy fleet with all your concentration on the one place.