It is good that it is manual, it just needs to be so that different stat setups can be saved for different classes, instead of one setup for all classes. And this does not require the removal of physical levels.

In turn, stat points need to carry more weight than they currently do, so that we wont have to re-assign up to 400+ stat points. They can pretty much halve the amount of stats you can distribute, and double their effect, or something to that end.