Depends I guess on if it's a significant bonus.
If it's worth the equal of 4-6+ points into a skill, then sure, it's important enough to be 'mandatory'. I'm already at the point where I wish I could max out my production skills all from 8 to 10, that would allow me to compete better on the alpha markets.
There's several items I can't profitably make with 'only' level 6-8 in all production and research/proto and financial skills because of steep alpha competition.(across 2 chars, which makes this extra harsh on me, since I'll have to wait 6+ months to be able to consolidate them on one char, since I had already started EP spending generalizing into mining and combat and such.)
Should alpha markets be closed to anyone under 600k EP? Should there be the ability to specialize in one aspect of production? These changes say one thing, the older game said another. Which is why I think there should be an EP reset of production skills. Since this will drastically affect how competitive some characters are.(namely: ME!)