I loved gunning as an HC PE! I'm was always more concerned with how easy it became to get vehicles perma destroyed that finding a vehicle. Maybe others haven't had the same cost problems as I did. In beta they weren't destroyed, well like they were on the spot, but you could go back to a garage, and pay are decently large fee to have it repaired.

I like basically all the points brought up by the original poster! Except I do see a point in the higher end damage dealers still having harder restrictions. Also if those skills were simply wiped out, it might change how points and things are spent while building characters.