Star Citizen's Odin: When Is Enough Enough?

Cloud Imperium Games is experiencing record-setting cash shop revenue this month based on the sale of a concept ship, the Odin-class battlecruiser. Huge ships like the Odin are ideal content for when the Star Citizen developers finally put in base building and player-owned space stations. One of the things promised to players at CitizenCon a couple of years ago was the ability to build the big powerful ships that only exist in the lore. But did the current sale go too far into spawning this one class of ships into the game?

Based on the first day of sales, I thought CIG had sold 3,000 Odins combined between fresh money and store credits. BoredGamer, a YouTuber who has covered Star Citizen for a decade, thinks the final number is more around 6,000 ships. That's an awful lot of ships, especially since they won't be available for another 2-3 years.

The question I have is: did CIG sell so many ships that players will have little to no need to build their own? The ship has a crew requirement of 33-65 players to fly well. Will Star Citizen have enough players to crew all the ships without feeling the need to build their own?

As a comparison, EVE Online reached its historical peak concurrent usage on 5 May 2013 with 65,303 accounts logged in. If everyone logged into the game at that time were to magically transfer to Star Citizen and crew Odins, they could only crew between 1004 and 1978 ships. A player on BoredGamer's Discord server took the comparison an extra step. He compared the staffing requirements of the Odin to the United States Navy. According to Wikipedia, the Navy has 344,600 active and 57,500 reserve members. To crew the fleet of Odins sold over the last few days the US would need to dip into the reserves as to fully crew 6000 Odins requires 390,000 players.

Even if one assumes between 1 in 4 and 1 in 6 active players is logged in at any one time, Star Citizen has probably reached the limit of Odins the game can support. I imagine recruiting Odin owners instead of building them will become the preferred way of organizations obtaining the powerful ships. Good for those rich enough in real life to afford an Odin, but probably not so good for those just entering the game.

In the meantime those Odin owners will fly around the 'verse in their loaner ships, the Idris-P. But I really think CIG jumped the shark by spawning so many of the powerful ships, especially since the only way they can be removed from the game is the owner to stop playing and logging in.