Scouts would mean a real scout. Not some throw away NPC shuttle.
I have often wondered what this game would have been like from the start if there was not three characters per account, but just the one.
The obvious differences would have been things like, character trading would be incredibly hard to accomplish. Scouts would mean a real scout. Not some throw away NPC shuttle. Pirates would not have had a hauler to fetch them supplies from Jita while their main spun ships with a -10.0 security status in low sec. Podding a cyno kestrel in low sec would have more meaning knowing he has a clone to replace that would be more and more expensive the older he was. Obviously you can't turn back the clock and change this because the cat is already out of the bag so to speak.