If nothing else, more skills are going to be added anyway with the two new skill trees, and with combo skills from skill crafting. Asking whether or not only D:OS EE's existing skills and nothing else should be used in EE is an academic question.
You have to agree that having a maximum of 6 possible learnable Novice skills but only 5 possible ones to choose from is silly.
I do believe that more skills can be added. For example, I don't agree with the decision to remove Featherfall. I also question some of the streamlining that was done to remove other skills.
I do not agree with the premise that the game should be dumbed down to appeal to casual players. That never produces a better game.
I do not agree with your premise that the number of skills in the game should be reduced, so therefore I do not like your proposed distribution table.
