A Scout since 1.8, well, that's an expert opinion.

As I'm no real Scout, I will say nothing else, though.. We could remove those flat dampening numbers from the cloaks and give the skill that bonus, 2% per level when the cloak is active. That would actually make skilling higher worthwhile, instead of the new skilling higher and spending more to make it worthwhile.

It does a little too good a job at that; it ties up not only armor mods, but all low slots as a whole, by forcing you to fig PG/CPU extensions.
Even at level 5 (which sure as hell shouldn't be a requirement to cloak), fitting anything above standard is pretty tough.

Very wrong, Nanohives and Injectors get a 5% cpu reduction per level.

Caldari scouts don't have that many high slots, dipshit.

Highly doubt that, and nobody needs precision mods.

I don't brick tank either; I put as much into biotics as I can, with dampening on the side.

With what I've seen from your average gallente scout, I doubt you'll have any problem seeing one. A single advanced precision enhancer would probably do the trick.

I have been a scout since open beta, early Feb 2013, and have always run a minja.

Fixing the dampening on cloaks had little to do with brick tanking, as the plates were the real problem.

Now, looking at the scanning table numbers, and understanding that cal scouts can share their passive scans with the squad, I will now light up like a christmas tree in everything but a Mk.0 with 3 damps (taking up all my low slots) AND a proto cloak.

There are many other issues at play. I suggest stopping by the barbershop if you really want to be schooled on the ways of scouts. Otherwise, all I see is another FOTM 1.8 scout that has little care for the scout role, and little understanding of the mechanics affecting the role as a whole, as well as race specfic impacts.