Not everyone has 40million SP. Most people have been forced to focus on a single role. Which means the command respec means NOTHING to these people. Basically a HTFU mantra. Especially since day one, they have been told to focus on a single role to get competitive and join in on PC games.

Bonuses that increase the effectiveness of shield extenders or armor plates literally do nothing when you don't fit a shield extender or armor plate. That's the basis of the Dropsuit Upgrades respec question here. It's not whether +25% base armor and shields are better. Of course they are. They affect every suit. But the skills to get complex armor plates and shield extenders, complex armor repairers and shield regulators provide absolutely no bonus if you don't fit those mods. So, spending sp into building a proto Amarr heavy (with complex tanking gear) is wasted when someone wanted to build a complex Caldari heavy all along.

This is why a lot of people were saving skill points including myself.

Expecting a heavy to be hit and run was always suspect. Something has to stand and deliver for the rest to hit and run
- Or did you expect Gallente to always be there to be the broad force

Hit and run doesn't require short delays, anyway.
Shield tanked direct combat requires the short delay to make use of cover. A hit and run player, meanwhile, will be able to hide, regenerate and come back - So total regeneration time is far more important for them.
Not that you could do hit and run in a heavy outside of sumo combat and LAV abuse.

i wish CCP would just give me a dropsuit respec, i dont want to use the amarr heavy anymore i've waited since closed beta for new heavy suits and being forced to use the only heavy suit available to me and CCP wont even give me a decent suit respec

I want to give the CPM some credit where credit is due, but they also successfully convinced CCP to get rid of my Minie logi hacking bonus in exchange for reaping an extra 5 meters away , so they can still burn.