Because the scout class bonus of reduced profile signature is meaningless with the current 10m scan radius, I don't know why anyone would spend 2.7 million skill points for the proto scout when you could get the proto light for 1.2 million skill points.

Please please please have part of the scout's buff be a universal increase of all dropsuits scan radius. if you increase everyone's scan radius, say from 10m to 30m, people will actually be able to passively scan others except scouts since they have lower profile signatures which would be an advantage to them. If you are concerned increasing this passive scanning range will make active scanners useless, it won't but you could always give active scanners more range or other perks (like say temporarily see enemy outlines though walls.

I've had the proto for months now an pull it out from time to time but I recently started a new character that I'm building to prepare for the caldari scout if it's any good, so for now I'm working on nothing but passive skill bonuses an ALL suit CPU pg reductions .
If you went minmatar you need knives, it's a knifers suit, gallente is a shot gunner in my opinion because you can take a beating.

Now before 1.2 build the minmatar was a beast for speed, sg , an novas. But with all the changes what you seen others do months before isn't really the case now, ccp took our speedy assassin an f ' d his : dodging, jumping, hotbox , stamina, an made all other suits that much harder to hit an run cuz they can actually chase us down now.
A friggen logi shot gunner with 2/2 reds an greens is a nasty bugger to have chase you!

So basically go back to running a mega weak fit like a level one suit, that way you ll trick yourself into thinking that your proto is the weak suit an you ll live longer.
Try this fit for a shotgunner:
Adv shield energizer
2complex s/e
Complex green
Feroscale plate or enhanced armor rep
Toxin sub

Now that fit can't take a huge hit so having 234 shields an ur armor is no biggi but you always have full health!
I had a guy hit me I went behind a wall 2 seconds an boom full health I even started usin shield reg an that's really irritating to the enemy they have to ohk you.
An use r/e they stop people from chasing me

For Gallente CQC Scouts, the passive scan bonus combined with long-range scanning is useful.

I've been reading the past posts and it's sad to hear that our gals arent getting justice from their role bonus. I feel that it does help me in-game, I have the scout g/1 series with 2 adv range amps. It helps, the problem comes when I try to go for the kill. shenaningans, I look like a noob sometimes It's a hard feeling when you do your best to stay off radar and then you get instakill upon sight by a duvolle or MD.