Is the "Point Allotment" system necessary at all?

[Punainen]

I agree the point allotment system is useless, especially because "freedom" to spec your character how you want is frowned upon. Everyone and their grandmother are jumping on the elitist bandwagon and forcing people to recite their stats to make sure they fit their standards before they'll invite you to an event. So its mostly the community's fault, but still, point allotment is useless. There's only one 'legitimate' way to allot stats for each job, and nothing else is accepted.

[Ricky]

Everyone and their grandmother are jumping on the elitist bandwagon and forcing people to recite their stats to make sure they fit their standards before they'll invite you to an event.

Why would you choose to be anything less than 100% though? I know you don't need to allot the stats in the accepted way to clear content but why not do it and be 100% effective? I don't understand why you are insulting people like that when they are just getting the most out of their character, the problem lies with the game where if you allot points any way other than the accepted best allotment you aren't really gaining anything worthwhile and losing very important stats