I'm not asking it to be perfect, I'm asking it to be honest.
I am, as you said, austere because I would feel cheated. I spent a lot of time reading guides about how the skill training works, making ITP and creating training schedules. If individual skills are mere a cosmetic feature, all of that was for nothing, and Nordeus have deliberately lied to me, to all of us. If they can do that, nothing in this game matters. Everything could be a lie disguised as "game mechanics". Illusion of something that actually works. I don't need such a game.
I play video games since middle 80s, almost all my life, and I take them seriously =]