Amazingly, I would agree!
Seriously, it's silly to give the opposing player zero points. If I look at the games people play screen, it shows BOTH of us bold. I am sure that doesn't mean we both "WIN", I presume it means it's a draw, 0 to 0. Which it clearly wasn't.
This means any time you don't want to suffer a loss, and this isn't what Micha was doing mind you, you can simply surrender with no penalty! I for one will avoid people who use that to their advantage like the plague of course. But still, surrender, means, I get the enemies ships most likely, which is far better than sinking them as far as value to my country, so, if anything, double the points won for surrendered ships!