Whats the point of Aegis and Eraser morphs?

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One good thing is you can mousedrag a selection-rectangle over your base and give a move-order to all mobile units, without accidently moving shields that were meant to protect your base.
Static shield is taken from BA game, then a walkable shield was added, the morph gadget used to be very popular, tada there is a morph between the two. Then morphing fall out of favor, but the morphs between statics and mobiles remained. Or something like that.
Spring mods are more a guided evolution process than intelligent design out of void.
Not everything has a real 'point', what is the point of hair on your knees, some things just are.

Well, if the statics were removed you could build mobile ones and "wait" them so you could drag-select other units and move them.

quote: move orders override Wait

wait wat?

quote: wat?

Non-queued move orders override Wait.

It's not elegant, but it works. There are some things you can do with the mechanic that is to your advantage. For instance, I often build an eraser near my front porc to hamper the efforts of artillery noobs in big teams, then later morph it to the mobile version when I get my strider or whatever and no longer need to cloak my base. It saves a little bit of money early.

So there's a little bit more decision making without cluttering up the fac panel as Aqua says. It feels a little arbitrary but it's not a big deal. The micro is negligible, you make 2 or so extra clicks a game if you choose to do this.

The morphs are designed that way. Non-designed morphs have already been removed. You can give a morph order to a unit before it is 100% complete.

Point of hair is to prevent energy from leaking, insane stupid scrubs.

Also yes selection of aegis is a valid point, but making self-root instant would alleviate it.