Yeah he's an irritating droid. I think the best solution would be if Bioware gave us the option of purchasing one ship droid from a variety of around five or six. They don't have huge amounts of dialogue so I can't see it requiring a lot of effort.
There are loads of other cool droid models, such as QM-35 in the Taris Archive (love that model). The droids could be purchased from a droid market and then everybody's happy as we can customise our 'home' and playing experience just that little bit more.