Agreed; adding RNG to an already punishing and grindy skill system sounds like a recipe for ragequits and "optimizing the fun out of the game"; the best case scenario I'm imagining is people dying to lower their skills and then skilling-up again... repeatedly... to make sure their level 15 perk is whichever one they've decided is "the good one".

I don't want to consider the kind of fury that would fill these forums for the worst case scenarios I'm imagining here.