Silly question but with them adding "Plus One" versions of just about every leveling vessel in game, including some Klingon options that didn't exist before, and giving each of these ships a special console useable by a wide range of ships, have they started to do anything about converting Vice Admiral abilities into consoles?

Player abilities aren't going to become consoles, only ship abilities.

If you meant the VA ship abilities then yes, they are. Currently several of the VA ships on Tribble have a console added to them for the special ability so that they can be removed. they appear to be locked to the ship they came with though.

Thanks. /10