Yes stern camping is OP, so devs gave ships the ability to reverse like speedboats. Biggest void is musket fire between ships during battle, then stern camping wouldn't be an issue and ships wouldn't need the arcadish sailing model to counter it.
Yes devs seen that image and reference before, absolutely no correlation between that and sail model in game, can't see a ship the size of a Connie stopping and then sailing backwards within the same time, distance and speed as this game.