But if it's clearly not built as a scout, and it's still a better scout than most assaults, while being a better assault than them, why is that even relevant?


This is like saying 'your assault? No good because it can get scanned'.

Because ewar scouts > bricked tanked scouts

But it's built for hunting meds and heavies, so its performance against scouts is not really relevant, as long as it does its job against its chosen targets.

I could make a similar argument about Gallente Logistics; 'you are gimped because you didn't bother fitting a Duvolle Focused and now you can't find all the scouts'.

Usually it's something along the lines of 'it can't find other scouts and they can find it'.

But that's not the point of a bricked scout. Gallente scout has a higher armour ceiling than the Amarr Assault (than every assault except Gallente, to be frank. I think it's a slots thing), with bonus rep, inherent dampening (35 base before skills? Only thing that finds you is scouts and people who are explicitly trying to find you), extra equipment and it's still faster.

Now, I assume this fitting might be subpar owing to having no shield buffer and very little regen, but it is no more 'gimped' than any assault suit ever.

Again, why is it a gimped suit when it isn't designed for EWAR?

I get that, but what I mean is that it's not always a good idea to optimize for a specific situation.

Most battlefields aren't covered in scouts, after all, at least not ones that are covered in dampeners (or so their HP totals would tell me), so it often would not be worthwhile fitting to counter those scouts who simply are not there.
Even then, the majority of the players in this game use non-scout frames, so hunting (I'm sticking with that word, infiltrating heavies is disturbing) meds and heavies is therefore a perfectly viable playstyle, and when all the EWAR scouts are insisting that it's possible to counter them with awareness, why not just do that with a scout?

Also, I've just realised what you meant by the infiltrate part - that was poorly written on my part, I suppose.

I'm not trying to suggest that scouts are designed to hunt mediums, just that this particular fitting is built around killing mediums rather than scouts.

EDIT: with the GalLogi argument, I'm referring to carrying the Focused scanner to find edge case targets who usually don't even exist :) as opposed to other, more generally effective scanners.

*sigh*

I suppose I do see that, even though I don't entirely agree.