I love watching this get called a "cheat," "exploit," etc. It's a fair strategy, there's nobody given any advantage over anybody else (except those who refuse on philosophical grounds, but that's their tradeoff to make anyway) by doing leves in this manner. Besides, the people are trading their faction points for SP. It's not like its a 100% win-win situation in using it.

I also radically do NOT hope they level the SP pools for all leves. While some balancing might well be in order, leveling them out will make leves even more bland than they currently are, I think.