gotten to the point where I just wish I could buy all the Cloaks from the Market and keep them away from all the scrubs.

Scout + Cloak is far too common right now, it doesn't take a genius to notice that this is the new FOTM.

I get real tired of hearing all this BS coming from scan crutch users and heavy suits about scouts. I ran scouts a long timfact o, stopped for awhile, and have now picked them up again in 1.8

Stealth is king right now, as it should be. Scouts were in a real bad place before. With all the scanner spam going around, there was almost never a time you didn't get spotted, and no one had cloaks back then. Now that we can avoid radar and scans, people are crying that needs to be gotten rid of because everybody only wants to look right in front of them. I was someone who used to always carry an adv quantum scanner and I'm glad they're gone.

Everybody that runs scouts with speed mods instead of brick tanking, surprise and stealth is our primary offensive weapon. We get seen and unless we're at immediate close range, we're dead. The cloaking weapon fire issue does need to be fixed, but as far as I'm concerned, stealth can stay as is. Start checking the perimeter of your squad and behind you for once.

Plus like someone said above, precision enhancers are now relevant. Under your idea, you in the Gallente logis, should be able to scan everything while only sacrificing one equipment slot while still fully stacking armor and shield mods, but scouts should have to double and triple dampen to avoid scans leaving us without speed enhancers or an extra armor reserve.