What I noticed with SCH's "jank" when leveling it is that almost all of it can be attributed to hotbar bloat. I tried mapping my SCH hotbar in a way that matched how my SGE hotbar is set up, but it kept pushing back. I would always end up with some actions that I could not find a comfortable place to up them without moving something else. Trying to make a mental model of what everything does, and how they interact with each other was incredibly frustrating. I felt like an idiot, like I'm not big enough nerd to understand it. So I think just doing some tidying up on SCH hotbars, commit to certain ideas, and clean up some redundancies would do a lot of heavy lifting in terms of cleaning up the "jank" -- especially if we want a little more offensive actions, and mechanics.
Learning or relearning a nnew class should be a fun experience, and not like trying to navigate the mogstation.