I see you problems and I must sat some of them are valid. But I am shure that they'll have a well balanced game in the end. I like the teachers instead of the skills that magicly appear when you level up to a certain level. I would lik to see the return of skill books that give a skill point to a certain skill like in <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/div.gif" alt="" />. I don't like the skill by exp (how more you use it the better you get).
But I saw a (modded) screenshot with a hero of level 72 thats 96 skill points to distrubuate and then 96 points for you DK counterpart.