It would allow people to become more specialized, perhaps to their own detriment, when they realize later on that their character has to make some money from recycling, research, or repaired items.  People can be shortsighted, and there tends to be no advantage to starting a new character in EVE, unless you are dual boxing or need someone who is always in a particular station to do errands, like a research alt.  What you are doing now with this character may not be what you end up doing in the long run.

In EVE, it is often the guy with the better "core" skills that wins.  It is the ignorant players that level up their ship and gun skills, then hop in a battleship that runs out of capacitor.  Many of the "core" skills in Perpetuum are R&D and industrial, are they not?  I might be wrong about that because it's not in front of me, but my memory tells me they are.

Each route has trade-offs, but there is a lot to be said for hybrid specs.