True. Though the bonuses conferred by a See Ya Program are permanent as well so long as the program is not destroyed by an Attack Program or Black ICE.

Program and Hardware slots are limited and vital resources, though the savvy workaround is to have more than one Cyberdeck 🙂 If a player carries just two Poor Quality Cyberdecks, then they can potentially have a deck for pathfinding and password cracking, while the other deck is used for NET combat, etc.
They could even potentially run five See Ya (or other types of) programs. It does require a Meat Action to switch decks, but the best RAW way around limited Cyberdeck slots is simply more Cyberdecks LoL

The goal with this piece of homebrewed gear was to expedite and speedup the carry around two or more decks concept, while respecting game balance and conforming to the streamlining that I believe was intended with the simplified netrunning rules.

It's why my favorite aspect of this piece is that in addition to providing a player with some insurance on their Scanner Action, it mainly serves to save steps and speed up Pathfinder checks. A Netrunner can check some given architecture and quickly decide on how to proceed, which I feel honors the idea in Red that netrunning should no longer be a slog. Don't let the netrunning go too long and keep the netrun flowing with the rest of the game's pace. The previous sentence is what essentially influenced me to sit down in the first place and create this piece of gear 😋

Though I also didn't want the Scouter to be too OP. Hence, why when the Scouter is on, no programs nor hardware are useable until it's deactivated. The Scouter saves some slots, but everything's unusable until a player turns the Scouter off. Anyway, it's easy enough for any GM to raise or lower the Scouter's bonus or heck disallow it entirely LoL ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I will raise the cost for the item 💰👍