While I do agree the Gallente heavy should have the lowest Native repair of all the Gallente suits there should be an incentive to not just purely Stack Armor Plates.

I say give every suit at least a 1 HP/Sec passive armor repair. (Gallente suits should get more.) Then Armor Repair modules would no longer be a mandatary part of every fitting.

The fact that Caldari suits which are supposed to be shield tanked are forced to equip an Armor Repair or a Reactive plate in their vary limited number of low slots is ridiculous.

By the same logic we should discourage the Caldari from stacking shield extenders too, right? I mean they have an innately superior shield delay and regen values so obviously all they would ever do is stack extenders and that would ruin then game.

1 armor repairs is a drop in the bucket for a heavy suit, especially if said heavy stacks plates. Depending on how much armor you have that means that it would literally take the entire game to completely heal yourself with innate reps only. Medium and scout suits recover more quickly, as is obviously apparent for any shield user if you read the stats on the suits.

Just because you shield users have lower HP (like you should) than armor users doesn't mean that armor users should either walk around half dead all the time or have no armor at all.

Your strength is recovery rate, so I suggest you plan on how to use it better than complaining about how the race whose focus is armor regen tanking have almost insignificant amounts of innate armor reps.