And having command would also have given her the resources to go after the Caprican survivors without the need to push quite so hard at Adama and Roslin for it. I always wished we knew how she managed to swing the plan in the end - we never get to see how she convinced them to agree to the rescue mission, though if she was a Battlestar commander in her own right it still has the chance to create some tension in her relationship with Sam, when it comes to her staying in the military and not moving down to New Craprica, AND maybe we'd get to skip the Leoben dollhouse (our girl was messed up already without that).