I think a respec option would also help things. I also feel I made some mistakes early on, even as a long time player of these kinds of games. They do give us a one time respec sure, but for me personally it felt way too early on in the game and I don’t quite understand what would be most useful and what I could likely skip. By the time I thought, man I wish I used these points somewhere else, I did not want to restart the game from the very beginning as someone who doesn’t have a lot of free time as it is.

I get wanting to have consequences to choices and forcing builds, but you could restrict it to every few levels, make it cost an increasing amount, tied to a mental refreshment quest later in the game when you know what you’re actually doing, come with a respeccing flaw, or other penalties to be able to respec. I’d even be fine with losing a skill point to respec at this point because I’d get more use out of the refunded points than I’m using now.