Quote Originally Posted by Kenji1134 View Post
I think THIS may be the purpose of Specializations.
Specialists get Whistle While You Work, which when it wears off gives a "significant" boost to progress, Ive heard on the order of 2x.
So for a Specialist a CS2 becomes almost equivalent to a RS, but without any drawbacks.
It also can fail. Let that wrack around your brain a bit.