The devs favorite scribing skills

DrNukenstein

How come none of the devs consider Contingency to be their favorite, even though it is by far the most potentially interesting one.

Could it be that it has a really lazy, lame, and bad trigger condition?

Is there any chance this skill will be reworked to open up some interesting uses as a "contingency"?

https://www.elderscrollsonline.com/en-us/news/post/66057

Lykeion

This part is equally puzzling to me. Based on the description (and some self-explanatory rules) it seems like Ruffian should only work on myself, but the dev describes it as a group buff