Neutral grids attack without provocation, no different from Hostile grids

Neutral npc drones have been attacking my grids. I've been told by multiple people in the Keen discord that this is an intentional thing, so I'm going to try and make my opinion/point about this as clear as possible (as to not waste any devs' time).

1. I don't care that their signal is neutral when they are warning me about getting too close to them or that I need to move or they will open fire (though this is a bit annoying when they do it to my static grid base, which they have decided is now in their flight path).

2. I don't care that when I ignore these warnings, the drone starts attacking me. (Though maybe an audio queue could accompany their chat warnings, as their chat messages can get lost in a server with an active chat).

3. I DO CARE that after they have opened fire at me (they shot first), their signal stays neutral and doesn't change to hostile or is treated as hostile for turret targeting. (I don't know about you, but being shot at feels pretty hostile)

The drones staying neutral means that my base will not defend itself from attack unless I manually change turret targeting to target neutrals, which feels wrong to have to do (again, them shooting at me is a hostile action, not neutral)

1. If I'm on an active server where there are a lot of neutral signals (or even in single player, in an area with a lot of npc ship trafic), I now have to find the neurtral signal that is closest to me instead of looking for the red one (which in this game has always meant hostile, and our brains have been trained to look for when we hear shooting)

2. Being forced to use target neutrals is a good way to accidentally piss off every other neutral faction around you. (Maybe on the official servers, where pvp is a constant threat, this isn't a problem). But when in single player or on pve server, this is a problem. People leaving their grids on attack neutrals (or forgetting to switch it off attack neutrals) can lead to people accidentally shooting each other or other non-hostile npcs; ie. actually neutral, neutral grids like trade stations.

TLDR: When an npc grid is shooting at me (and they shot first), I expect it to be a hostile signal for the purposes of turret targeting, not neutral (I don't know about you, but being shot at feels pretty hostile). Noticed after the Apex Survival update.

Hi, i encountered the event where you find 4 scattered habitat modules

(1xcargo, 1x farms, 1xliving quarters, 1x empty with ambush drone).

The Ambush drone that emerged from the 4th pod got me cold without my turrets reacting,

cause it was flagged as neutral.

I don't think its common to have "shoot neutral and enemy" on all the time usually.

Makes salvaging and npc interaction a bit hard that way.

I think it should be enemy, so not from the UNKN neutral faction, so your defenses react.

First time it hit me i didnt even notice it. Just exploded suddenly while i was looking at something.

White hud marker kind of drowns out when you are in a bunch of them (as is case in this event).

Otherwise i think it was a cool encounter, and the drone looked slick, very industrial.