I liked setting my own attribute points personally, I felt like my character was more personalized because I could specify exactly how I wanted her to develop fully. I could adjust it to make her have more STR or give her a big MP pool, where now everything is pretty much like FFXI. Every character has X stats at X level and you have to use gear to change it. But everyone within a specific class basically wears the same thing at 50, so where is the uniqueness character wise and stat wise?

But that's just my opinion.