Improving MEA's mechanics to encourage experimentation (Levelling, loot, crafting, combat)

I actually really like this games mechanics, but I think it can improve.  In particular, I think the mechanics that exist can work to discourage experimentation by the player, which is important because this is a system which really needs the player to experiment and explore the mechanics in order to find a good mix of powers, profiles and weapons that work for them and how they want to play the game.  So, here are some ways I think it can be improved, with a focus on stuff that seems like it could be patched

Get rid of the cooldowns for profile/favourite switching
We want people to try new things not feel they're being punished for it.  Switching powers should maintain any active cooldowns from the previous set, so its not overpowered.

Give out a lot more skill points early on, and perhaps add a level requirement to the higher ranks of skills
The game is very stingy with skill points early on, which means you spend a lot of time just trying to get your first set of powers/profile up and running with no room to experiment.  Adding level requirements to higher skill ranks would mean that the extra skill points would be spent on diversification rather than just speeding up specialisation.

Move some of the key, defining upgrades to skill rank 4, rather than 6
Putting the best stuff as the final cap of the tree is understandable, but it means that it takes extra time to get new powers to the point where they're interesting, or where they're worth trying out in the field.  For example, if you want to use lance with the shield powered option, or have your turret prime enemy targets, you shouldn't have to wait until rank 6.

Make looted and bought weapons and armour come with augments pre-installed
Since weapons and armour come without augments unless you craft them, found weapons are strictly worse than stuff you can make for yourself.  This makes the loot very boring, and discourages the player from trying out the various weapons to find one that they like.
Crafting would still be worthwhile, because its the way you get precisely the gun you want with precisely the augments you want.  But this way using found stuff would be more attractive as an experiment, or if you just can't be bothered with the crafting.
(You'd probably have to limit the augments you can acquire by deconstructing weapons somehow, maybe a percentage chance of recovering them)

Reduce the cost of crafting different weapons and armour at higher levels
Because you have to research lower level versions to get the current version, it gets increasingly punitive to try out different weapons as things go along.  At low levels you might be able to craft up some cool looking gun and not mind too much if it turns out to only shoot peas, but at higher levels you're basically obliged to save and reload if you want to experiment.

Move the Respec button somewhere more prominent.
Its kind of hidden at the moment.  Put it on that table on the tempest with the AVP, Crafting etc

Make hybrid profile requirements more flexible
Currently the requirements want a precise 50/50 split, but often you don't really want to invest so heavily in one of them.  Rather than, for example, needing 50 tech points and 50 biotic points to get Sentinel level 4, you should be able to get it so long as you have 100 points total in Tech and Biotics, and a minimum of 25 (or 33 or whatever) in each.  As well as allowing more flexibility in build for hybrid profile based builds, this would effectively offer the player more viable options as to which profile they want to use.