I think the design philosophy behind this mess is to force people to have flaw, so they can complement themselves. So you are forcing players to make choices as to what character they want to create, and having them fill the gaps.
However, I agree, the system is utterly flawed, and doesn't work so far. Proof be the difference of difficulties depending on the "class" (-less, nevermind) you choose, frustration some players might feel regarding character "development", fight oriented builds only (never read about something else than fighting builds in this forum), useless/broken/boring abilities and skills beside fighting ones...
However, please keep in mind: this is beta. Things are being balanced, and/or may still change.
Maybe, as weird as it seems, it is what Larian wants (and shooting their own foot, btw...)
