Skelly ships

hi i dunno if it's "as intended" but since season 20, the skelly/ghost ships, forts and garrisons, seem to suddenly be insanely accurate and unrelenting (faster fire rate), even so much as to headshot with cannon balls and land multiple hits from hundreds of meters away, we just spent an hour island hopping and then garrison in Devils Roar, as we left a galleon spawns as we try to get to port and sell off, then the meg spawns (we outran), we took so much damage in 10 seconds it felt more like we had gone against a heavily experienced crew in pvp not just a normal pve encounter, this is something we have noticed a lot more recently, am i mistaken?