TL;DR: I'm a scout who wants cloaks removed - mainly because I don't trust you QQers or CCPs...'interesting' take on balancing.
Disclaimer: been playing since before 1.3 at least - only ever specced Gal scout.

I believe once upon a time CCP removed active scanners and reintroduced them when 'fixed' (lulz I know, but bare with me here)...please just remove cloaks. Create a covert ops frame at some point and give that frame a really limiting role bonus instead.

Replace our bonus to something useful to scouts.

You see every role has their 'thing' IMO.

Assaults = weapons = bonus to weapon fitting.
Logistics = equipment = bonus to equipment fitting.
Sentinels = Tank = bonus to Splash damage (aka heavy weapons and explosives).
Scouts = stealth/mobility = bonus to electronics and biotics mods?

However - you (CCP) kinda decided our 'thing' should be something you hadn't really invented or tested yet. Cloaks.

I get the distinct impression you were more concerned about introducing something new and flashy, than actually balancing scouts.

When you realised you weren't technically proficient enough to allow us our speed, I think you floundered - patch after patch - trying to figure out what to do with us. However, most people don't play light frames - so it's understandable that our plight wasn't a highest concern.

For me gettin cloaking devices from CCP is like having an absentee parent, who one day turns around, starts pretending like they care, does some nice things - but then gives you this god-awful tacky gold chain and kinda forcefully insists you wear the damn thing everywhere you go.

I think you love this gift more than we do (feel free to let me know if I'm wrong).

It doesn't matter if we get beat up or made fun of - you won't accept that your horrible gift is the problem and you will start making other changes in complete denial that if you just took this horrible gift away and give us something more sensible, things would turn around fast.

I don't think cloaks are OP.
I think they are glitchy and inherently difficult to balance. CCP can't/won't fix those glitches effectively.
I think CCP will pass them off as 'features'.
I think CCP will nerf all those things I liked about scouts to accommodate these 'Cloak features'.

Maybe I'm wrong - but many scouts before 1.8 were not asking for cloaks as our saviour. We generally enjoyed the basic premise of 'scout' - it just wasn't particularly competitive, and other frames could do what it could do but better/less penalties (sound familiar?).

Maybe I'm just another hipster scout who just hates seeing us become more popular...I dunno.

I'm just still waiting for CCP to comment on this flood of QQ we've had so naturally I'm assuming the worst. I'm a CCP fanboy at heart - but even they have to admit, they got some issues...