I appreciate you making a fairly reasonable points, and agree with some things, but not necessarily others.

I agree tanking is somewhat of an issue. I have heard Rattati speak to possibly give light suits alone a unique penalty to regular plates. I have also heard discussion of making the bonuses scouts have affect only mods, so as to increase the need to actually have them equipped to get any benefit from them. As it stands, just having dampening to lvl 5 gives scouts a significant advantage.

I disagree with the notion that cloaks are the devil. There are certainly issues, and they have been exploited, but given the significant weaknesses scouts have, being unscanned is imperative.

One legitimate problem with cloaks is the ability to so quickly use equipment or items in the middle of decloaking, particularly Alpha weapons like the NKs and Shotguns. And while I would like to eventually have a one second delay between decloak and equipment/weapons use, there is a large problem in the way. That of the sprint bug.

If you have tried scouting for any period of time, you are probably familiar with the slowing down that happens when trying to do a lot in a short amount of time, particularly trying to use a weapon from sprint, or change/use equipment etc.

Until this gets fixed, I could not advocate for a delay after decloaking because then scouts would not only have to deal with the delay, but the inability to maneuver, find cover, escape etc. during the delay.

TL;DR I agree with the notion that non tank (particularly armor plate) mods should be incentivized, but not necessarily with your plans on doing so.

I don't agree with reducing cloak EWAR advantages, though there are problems with the cloak that need fixing.