Definately some sort of change is needed. Not sure why the indy planets decided to LOWER all the planet lvs so you not only have to repair but also UPGR all your recaptured planets. But today was testing my patience for sure.
I started at the tick of the clock to attack but between lag, having to manually scroll the repairs and then manually scroll an upgr to get back to the original planet lvls, I lost two planets to die back. Which if calculating means that I am lucky to recapture and repair one planet every five minutes. Since I lose about 10-14 at a time this means that I would have to spend approx one hour just to get my planets back.