Now if the stats were a permanent boost I would be a little more willing to see something like that put in.

How ever that could lead to the opening of a whole other can of bees with balancing and of course there would still be the issue of "What do you mean you don't have x or y". Though the balancing thing does some what fly out the window when you take materia into account.

I would also think that much like materia there would be a hard cap on how high given stats could be boosted via titles (there goes that pesky balance thing again).