Quote Originally Posted by ellohwell View Post
We never got to see if the optimal/favoured system would function economically with properly scaling stats and an informative interface, so your point is what was "rendered moot", not the system itself. Sorry.
your point is rendered moot by your apparent inability to check your attributes page to see the effect of the scaling pre-1.19

and frankly, the only "proper scaling stat" that wouldn't be harmful economically would be just as harsh as the required-lvl system, which leaves you with pretty much only aesthetics to argue for.