[Chaos]

Personally I'd want to see how it'd actually look once stat traits were removed.

However, stat points are on such a stranglehold that you basically have to pile on as many uses for the stats you pump up as possible. The 'softcap in half the stats is overpowered' mentality you had from very long ago, Dev, has been very much disproven, given that even if half of them were softcapped by base stats, you would still have six stats that got dumped. There is no combo that can cover all bases, especially with defensive functions split over seven stats. It would, however, allow for more varied/quirky builds, i.e. a melee build that uses FAI for light damage/Holy/Blessed.

That aside, there is some stuff that is currently possible due to the Stat Traits. Even if it was a 'everyone gets brought down' scenario, you are still going to see some builds suffer more than others, which is more to say they're getting two heapings of suffering compared to just one.

I'd say for the sake of covering for the holes that'd be left by the Stat Traits, and for further improvements, just go ahead and bump the SPL up to 4 and see how it goes.