So about maiming, striking and scouting.

[Jandor]

This. And for all we know all items past a given ilvl might not carry any data for primary stats, but instead just look at the gear class and the ilvl. If the code is already effectively as simple as that, there's no reason to strip yet one more RPG element from the game.

Apart from said element being pretty pointless and potentially misleading.

I'm almost at the point of thinking they should just embrace how simple most gear in this game is and move what little customization aspects exist there elsewhere.