There's also the part where he could land/hover his spaceship on/over a planet and use it to fight other characters. 

That aside. The Angar-Ryllans are the enemies of the universe, or whatever. As a backdrop of a fight, it stands to reason that it's all the more fun to have a massive spaceship battle while battling one's opponent within. For that purpose, taking the time to describe the specifics of a ship is not a bad thing. It doesn't work against anything. 

If you want examples of spaceship battles as backdrop of a one-on-one combat; The final confrontation between Darth Vader and Luke Skywalker in Star Wars episode 6 is a shining example of how it is done.