Not to mention, due to their being unmanned, situational usage, and, chances are, throwaway nature, any ships carrying drones could probably just have them packed into a bolted-on external compartment and drop them en mass. Assuming said drones ever began production, you wouldn't even need to radically redesign existing vessels to make use of them. It seems to me the drones as we see them now would be fairly easy to integrate if the decision was made to do so.
While I'm still not totally sold on the idea myself, it certainly has merit. Plus, and I've said this before, these things would make incredible Node Defense Supplements.
On a side note, Proper application of these things in an offensive role would probably make the act of capturing a capital ship a thousand times easier. That alone, would be worth the price of equipping some ships with them.