What was the point of the recent changes to DoL?

[Jinko]

Iirc. the 2nd poll also showed that players want physical level to be made class-specific, so with that in mind I think the new system is a representation of that mindset (although the phys. level has not yet been changed).

I would say and hope that its this, assuming they do remove physical levels the new system will most likely have stats assigned to classes.