Ability Points, Skill Trees & Talents being considered to replace leveling. Thoughts?

[Raikai]

Truth be told, they will have to do something.

If they really intend that 8.0 will me a job revision across the board to address identity, that's actually the perfect cue to either do a major level squish or a secondary leveling system post 100.

I think just a level squish is merely a band-aid, because level inflation will catch up again. Anyway, whatever they do, it must be somewhat future-proofed for at least 4-5 expansions.