This whole point allocation business just feels like a half-assed attempt at customization. You get to "choose" between 3 stats that do exactly nothing for your class (4 if you're a tank), Piety (which does exactly nothing for almost every class, but may have some justifiable applications on healers and casters), Vitality for those extra HP that you barely ever need (unless you're a tank) or your main stat that gives you a decent boost in performing the job you chose to do...
The only instance where the choice really becomes one is when you are forced to decide between Scholar and Summoner. Any way you look at it, one of them gets the shaft and that's quite a shame - I would've loved to play my Summoner, but neither respeccing all the time nor losing 30 points of int seemed very appealing to me, so now I dps on a Black Mage - essentially just removing one job I would have played.