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I believe the point of "Way of the Ranger" (and "Way of the Warrior") being added in the first place was that Warriors and Rangers typically didn't have as many uses for ability points as Rogues or any flavor of Wizard, thus they got "Way of the..." abilities which had benefits for Rangers (and Warriors). If you remove the bonuses for rangers from Way of the Ranger, then you're kinda removing the incentive for Rangers to use Way of the Ranger, which leads almost back to the original problem of Rangers not having as many places for Ability points.

The current problem is that Way of the Ranger is required for a lot of skills, most of which don't particularly care about what weapon type you use. If you want to use those abilities with a non-ranger, you have to spend ability points on Way of the Ranger, which is a great ability for Rangers, but offers only "Initiative +5" and "Sight +5.0 meters" for anyone else.