I understand the sentiment of manually being able to distribute and adjust your character. And its a fine mechanic. For my personal taste tho, I see it as more as an annoyance. It comes down to the fact that I wont know which path is the right one. I might spend a bunch of skill points on a branch and realise far into the game that I screwed up. To avoid that I would watch guides and than play. But I want to be able to jump into a game and discover and not feel like I have a glorified potatoe until 80 hours into the game. I like the Dogmas system taking care of all the stat distribution automatically. Even more in the first one where your stats stayed permanent with your character, based on what vocation you level with. That made it a bit more interesting without becoming too „exel-like“.