I think this is the issue at hand. Everyone seems to forget - pressing R1 has a little animation where press your omni-tool thing again and decloak, and iirc you can't switch out until the Animation plays out (has got me killed a few times).

I bet not one scout will say this is their decloaking method - why? Because you can just press your switch weapon button which pulls your gun out instantly. The fact that you at technically be cloaked when you fire that weapon is not even half the reason you would do this really (though from a victims perspective it makes sense, that they would QQ about that aspect).

Considering the cloak was pre-nerfed, with the intention of never firing from cloak, something tells me that the little animation was suppose to play any time you decloak.

People keep coming up with ways to 'rebalance' cloaks, but that simple glitch fix would seriously stem the flood of tears.

Did you even read the post?

Scouts should basically be nerfed into a support/intelligence class. They would be invaluable as a squad asset in this role. Scout is just a different flavor of killing and should basically more of a specialized suit. The basic light suit should become the light assault the scout suit plays as.

If battleships or capitals could apply their full DPS to small targets solo, EVE's balance would shatter.

I'm entirely aware of that, though in this case we were talking about Stealth Bomber Torps, so tracking and transversal don't come into the picture. As long as the small ships aren't simply sitting still, weapons like torps and cruise missiles might as well be spitballs- a Merlin on a Day 1 capsuleer will walk all over any Stealth Bomber in a slugging match. You write your post as though it somehow contradicts my point... if large guns had the ability to track and hit a tackler orbiting at 500m, EVE would be a much worse, much less interesting game.

This manual control is what presents a problem with the balancing of high DPS weapons on slow, high-EHP suits.