Gimped or not I will leave it as auto-allocate. We have to make enough choices in this game to "customize" ourselves between race, gear, materia, what abilities to equip (personal gripe of mine, should get access to all base class and then limited other class abilities imo) and the list goes on. It's beginning to feel more like a burden than customization so I'll take the route that doesn't require a heck of a lot of thought (especially without knowing battle and ability equations yet). I also put faith in SE that they have optimized the stat allocation already. Sure I may not need any STR on CNJ but maybe all the other stats are brought up to a high enough level that they will only gain benefit from gear anyway. Here's hoping.