The Pragmatic Ideology perk providing a free escort for each ship does not apply when unlocking it.
Additionally: The description says that an escort is given to all ships in own territory. Is this really intended to be applied per ship or per fleet?
If the description is correct I am full on board but seem to remember this perk has been working (in version 1.0 or so) before and only gave one ship per fleet not per ship
As some of the perks do not work and issues around their activation seem to pup up now and then please consider an automated test for them. This could be run before each release e.g.: activate perk and verify if effect is applied before release sign-off. There are some cool tools on the market for this but the engines SDK should also make this possible. The terminal also seem to allow changes to the game on the fly so could be used for the activation