| Disable Device + Open Lock: Open Lock is really a subset of Disable Device. The arguments that sabotage is INT and lock picking is DEX is too simplistic. The things INT covers are just as important in picking a lock as manual dexterity. Perhaps more so. Now, granted your average D&D lock is rather pathetic as locks go, but I blending these two and making the result Dex based feels like the appropriate D&D thing to do.
As for Linguistics I've mostly be scratching my head over adding Forgery to it, but the strength or weakness of the skill relates more to the table play style then the rules.
Ride and Handle Animal could probably be folded together, and while I agree Perception could probably be split, the counter argument to that would be that players will tend to pump Notice and ignore Observe.
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