I believe its pretty much this. Also, even though he quoted the poll, i don't believe physical levels are going to be removed. IMO, just like was said, we will receive a small amount of points for some "personal tweak" to each class.
My guess is that physival level will offer elemental point allotment and a base automatic allotment growth for attributes. With this done, the player uses his point allotmentts to fine-tuning the class.
Afterall its a nonsense we having people distributing all their points in 3 attributes and leaving the rest raw. I believe that they gave players a chance of fully customizing the character and, since it didn't happen as expected, they now will add automatically the minimum balancing and give players just enough points to fit the class to players' will (like allowing a lalafat player build his character in a way it can be just as good as a Roe in every class if he feels like it).
