This is however something that happens pretty much every time we make any serious balance changes, and it's been long-standing policy that we don't reimburse skill points due to this kind of change.

First they came for a 90K skill and I didn't speak out because I didn't have that 90K skill.
Then they came for a 200K skill and I didn't speak out because I didn't have that 200K skill.
Now they come for my 2 Mill skill and there is nobody left to speak for me because the precedent has been established.
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This is a matter of principle, of maintaining good precedents that have been set in the past.
CCP, you have the tools you need to do the right thing. Please do it so that we can have confidence that you will do the right thing in the future, like when you redo ship hulls and their skills.

Explain to me....
1) How removing a skill and replacing it with something completely unrelated (other than the corporation aspect) is a balancing issue? Those are your words. Balancing would be about bringing two or more things into intended comparative relations with each other. I fail to see how a multi-racial population restriction and the cost of hiring allies in war are comparable.

2) How removing Ethnic Relations and its function is different than the removal of the entire Learning category of skills and their functions. Sounds the same to me yet you treat them differently, and then talk about a "long-standing policy".

I do not like this, CCP.
I do not like you choosing skills for me.
I do not like it in my ship,
I do not like your cunning quip.

I would not train this skill in my pod,
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I would not put this in my brain,
You would not see it on my main.

I would not inject it, no I won't,
But reimburse my SPs, no you don't?

I like to choose my very own skills,
Your rationale gives me the chills.

Please let me set my own training plan,
Thank you, thank you, Sam I am!