Why won't mining ships ever use Resource Probes?

[Targ Collective]

If a mining ship has a resource probe in inventory, triggers an upkeep to need a resource probe, and is onsite to mine, then it drops the probe. Only the probes needed will be dropped because if there's already a probe in range, it won't show an upkeep mission. It would be simple.

If that's not going to happen, then a 'deploy satellite grid' and 'deploy resource probe grid' command would be highly useful.

Having to saturate the resource probes in a sector by hand is frustrating data entry that is not fun. This is a computer game. Being able to RP not-fun data entry - like giving every ship in a fleet a unique callsign, or to set up station trade rules for five sectors - is fun because we aren't forced to do it because the game automates the good enough if we get bored partway through. Having to place Resource Probes many times quite precisely feels enough like data entry that it is not fun at all, especially since headcanon insists that if they had the probes they should use them anyway. We can order a fleet of scouts to explore a sector with a click. Why can't we order our mining fleets to use probes if they have one and don't happen to be in range of one?

[BitByte]

Resource probes are useful only for player so auto deploying them is sort of pointless in bigger amounts.
AI ships already know where to go perform mining even without them.

There was time when ships gathered around resouce probes but that wasn't success change so devs returned back to current state.

[Raptor34]

Supposedly miners have a 50% debuff when mining not in range of a resource probe.

[blackphoenixx]

Supposedly miners have a 50% debuff when mining not in range of a resource probe.

It's a 15% speed buff when mining in range of a probe afaik (as of 4.1, but i don't think that bit was ever changed). It definitely isn't 50%, i'd have noticed that.