I heard that Scout suit will be specialized with cloaking capabilities in later builds.

Ya they are. I am hoping for some improvement with any bonuses they will have to stealth mods an electronic warfare, but not to good of an improvement, always want to avoid the gaze of the nerf hammer overlord.

The scout is sold as a cqc spec. with smg and shotgun in merc pack advertisement.

And the heavy had a swarm launcher... People still realized it was stupid to play that way. I have been rocking a heavy suit and I can still strafe effectively against people who can't aim, so to me it just sounds like a broken game mechanic was just fixed and the scout suit wearers are up in arms like some of the tank drivers.

I don't care about cqc, personally. I just don't understand how a scout who is supposed to be fast and agile can barely outrun an assault at 100m.

And the heavy had a swarm launcher... People still realized it was stupid to play that way. I have been rocking a heavy suit and I can still strafe effectively against people who can't aim, so to me it just sounds like a broken game mechanic was just fixed and the scout suit wearers are up in arms like some of the tank drivers.

The eve analogy earlier of scout is 'stealth bomber not battlecruiser', I think it will be more scout is frigate.
stealth bomber= scout sneaks behind enemy lines to put proximity mines were hav goes to repair, so it blows as it runs from av.
covert ops= spec ops scout with stealth and hack bonus
assault frigate= breech scout with combat bonus
electronic attack ship=scout set up with ewar modules.

The scout is sold as a cqc spec. with smg and shotgun in merc pack advertisement. The cqc is one of several possible roles, requiring stealth and/or speed.

Strafe speed reduction made only stealth viable, and scout has only 10% lower signature then assault. Circle strafe is a very common mechanic in EvE, although it is called close orbiting to raise transversal, so they didn't nerf strafe to make eve player's happy.

The speed on scout is unchanged since at least e3, the strafe speed was just lowered on all suits. Hit detection was messed up last few builds, if hit detection is fixed precursor strafe speed would be fine.

Circling a heavy with scout faster then they could turn was intended, scouts dancing in hmg fire not being hit wasn't intended.

Uhh... what? Hit detection abusers were abusing hit detection. When that was fixed, had the scout been left alone, they wouldn't have been able to abuse it any more. Instead, CCP nerfed the scout suit and fixed hit detection (which is good, btw, I'm glad they did), which ended up making the scout pointless.

Not to mention they have yet to give the scout the tools the suit needs to actually fill, what I think, is the actual role of the scout: stealth and recon. Lower sig profile is nice (and hard to quantify, because I haven't noticed a difference with my assault suit), but it's not exactly recon or sabotage friendly.

I don't care about strafing. But the people on here talking about how the scout suit is faster- it's less than 10% faster than the assault. And yet it has 2/3 of the CPU, PG, and hit points. That's math, people.

And the other "bonuses" of a scout suit have been nerfed, as another poster pointed out (copied and modified):

The Scout use to start recharging shield quickly, then they lost that.
The Scouts use to be able to sprint much faster than all other suits, and they lost that (see 10% above)
The Scout is supposed to be harder to detect, and it isn't.
The Scout is supposed to be able to detect people better, it isn't.

I have yet to see a reasonable and convincing argument as to how the scout suit, as currently constructed, is not worthless.

If they add cloaking, then the suit might be valuable. Until then, it's a waste of money.