I can see why all of you would want rapid reload to affect all light/heavy/sidearm weapons within their specified weapon category; however, by doing so, it defeats the CCP's purpose of making your character specialized within a niche or role. I seems a bit overpowered to me that just one stat would affect 5 completely different guns (shotgun, assalt rifle, sniper rifle, scramber rifle and plasma cannon) similar to how just one stat allows you to use 3 completely different types of grenades. By making the rapid reload universal, you effectively make the stat a mandatory stat to invest in (like pre patch sharpshooter). I could only imagine, everyone with rapid reload wil effectively turn the game into a lone wolf-n-rush game which is what ccp is trying to stay away from (at least i think)

I personally like the idea that each weapon has their own rapid reload, it effectively forces players to specialize in one area of warfare instead of branching out into a god-like one-man-army. However, i do feel he tier for rapid reload is too high. IMHO, just place rapid reload into teir 2 weapon training alongside operation and capacity and it should be fine.