Would advanced propulsion make space fighters workable?

Would the fuel and power requirements of orbital manoeuvres prevent space fighters from working?

Advanced engines and energy sources could make them workable within a faster-than-light setting, though that does not follow automatically.

The objection is that orbital manoeuvres demand too much fuel and power for small crewed fighters. A proposed response is that a setting with faster-than-light travel already assumes exceptionally capable engines and energy sources. Impulse engines, warp drive, hyperdrive, and gravimetric thrusters supply the fictional examples. Extending those assumptions to fighters seems plausible within such a setting, though it is explicitly presented as a possibility rather than a necessary consequence.