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I'm not sure whether the markerlight changes translate over into Epic very well, if at all. They still launch Seekers, obviously, but they're actually less useful now when applied to something large, like a Hammerhead. It used to be that one thing hit on a 2+ and ignored cover, now a whole squad of things gets a much smaller benefit. However, it's certainly not the case that a whole army (an Epic formation) benefits from a markerlight. At best, a single unit of Fire Warriors would get something, or a single Hammerhead would get something (and that something would be less than whatever the old Tau codex would have given it). In short, if we were fine not letting them do anything other than launch Seekers previously, I don't see why we should feel that they deserve something new now.
As for the newfound ability of suits to take targeting arrays, it should be noted that this comes at the cost of using multiple weapons in a single turn for any non-leader suit. As far as how the Epic rules ought to portray this, the only precedents I could think of are the Ulthwe Black Guardians, who are identical to the basic sort, and Eldar War Walkers and Wraithlords, who have identical Bright Lance profiles, although they have different ballistic skills. There are probably similar things in other lists, though I wouldn't be as familiar with them.
You're certainly right that Shield Drones got loads better, so much so that I doubt I'll ever see a Broadside without them again. I'm not sure how to represent that, though, or whether we should just stick with the 'incorporated into unit profiles' line.
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I will be giving it a careful read through very soon.
