I'm also in the camp of the ones that would definitely keep physical level, and I don't doubt that the majority of voters that want to remove physical level, are wow players that can't fathom that there can be a system that works equally well or better than wow's.
I'd really wish that the dev team stopped listening to those.

Physical level is there to ensure that progression in a class influences the general progression of the character, instead of having different classes just being the equivalent than logging out and logging in with an alt in wow, plus some extra skills.

I think it's extremely appropriate that people that level multiple classes are stronger physically than people that level just one, at the same level. In the end, after all, when you get to the endgame everything evens out.