Productive Logis don't just slap a beam on someone and follow them, they constantly establish, use, maintain and if need be relocate the support infrastructure their team is relying on to be able to Tactically approach the challenges the DUST battlefield creates and surpass them.

Which is why there's different modes with maybe not different "tiers" specifically but largely different mentalities on the part of the players in those modes. And this spread of mentalities is a product of and testament to the "Open Sandbox" aspect of the game's design basis. Point is, the tools are there. By your own statement of what you'd like to see, the tools are already there. Whether or not , when and where people choose to use them is a different topic entirely. That initial layout you see? Thats people who know how games can be directed at the beginning, that layout is their attempt at establishing that direction. Whether they do or don't maintain it is up to them, and obviously you. Now, if you don't want to spend the game working as a logi then don't. And if they don't either they won't. And you'll have the match you have. Or vice versa, and then you'll have the match you have then.
Logistics is work . Different from pewpew work, but still work. End of the day sometimes it's worth it, sometimes it isn't. Case in point-I omnilogi and have for almost a year, all 4 frames fully protoed, all upgrades complete. My number one suit for pubs? A dragonfly. Some matches, yeah I'll hit the field and floss some logi frames but the majority of them no, no way. Theres too much idiocy happening around me. But, its pubs so idrgaf. Even in FW same thing. I'm not going to hide in the redline and if I see a clearly beneficial opportunity to shift a battle logistically I'll use it but more often than not I'm just going to keep my match nice and simple, do my work for a win and move on.

Bear in mind I'm the guy who when the CPM survey went out on improving logis one of my first points was to make the frames a Dropsuit Command level 5 unlock, to limit the riffraff. I'm a **** like that.

There's no way a day-one char is doing anything even remotely close to worthwhile logistics.

The passive investments aren't there. Liability>Benefits

Although all things being equal on day-one its not going to make a ton of difference. Once they're out of that Academy tho....

Core skills.

I should also add experential role knowledge, but thats less about applying points into the tree and more about applying time into the game.

You could argue that making a logi only able to use one equipment at a time makes said role more challenging. A logi would then need to decide what's best for the team at every given moment rather than throw, forget, and rep. Dust will always be a unique game; rejecting ideas because they are similar to another game is shortsighted.

As for the OP idea, I like it as long as it's properly implemented. Main reason I like it is because I'm sick of passive uplinks. They are annoying when spammed all over the place, they can be glitched into walls, they yield far too many WP, they promote rooftop camping, they're amarr, etc.

Absolutely the game requires it, performance each match requires it.
Providing a frame, any frame, that compensates for a lack of investment in any role is the worst idea possible. You're decrying people's failure in performance (providing and maintaining support) but then suggesting that right from them the get-go they NOT be made to learn but instead be given , artificially, a suit that provides performance benefits that character isn't entitled too? Should a "slayer" starter suit be preloaded with weaponry specced at Prof5? Or plated/extended at Complex levels?
Core skills are the the actual RPG progressive elements in this game, your individual merc develops those and reaps the benefits with all frames and fits. They're the basis of difference between experienced, seasoned mercs and new ones. Suggesting that starter frames compensate for a lack of core skills is crazy and akin to bootcamp trainees being handed top-end weaponry and equipment day one. It would instill a false sense of capability as well as not provided a learning environment that produces the sort of problem-solving skills sorely needed by logistics players at all levels in all match modes and maps.