It was a pretty broken system, like almost everything related to XIV on launch because they weren't fully realized or optimized systems.

Maplestory/sea does auto allocation on a class by class basis properly, so they can do it properly in XIV too if they so wished, but it seems a lot of people are touchy about 'freedom' wish is what got XIV in a bad place balance wise to begin with, because SE wanted to give players a bit too much freedom that it couldn't be balanced.

I believe when they stated we'll get it back it will still have class specific level up stats and a bit of extra points on level up, kind of like how in XI throughout your pre 75 career you get auto stats on level up then post 75 you get points to specifically spend on certain attributes.