Might be patched soon, but when ship building if you select a mod that when you select is shown as red because there’s not enough space to place it there (not that it doesn’t attach, but that it clips the ship so can’t be placed there in the 3D space), and you place it there anyway, you can then use the D pad to select any of the mods regardless of your skills. Just move out of your ship clip area and place the component in free space. The. You can attach it to your ship! Personally I’m more interested in shipbuilding but didn’t find levelling up those skills as a useful time commitment. This just makes the game more fun for me and I can focus on other skills that are more useful in gameplay.