They're game developers, which means I have absolutely no faith in them to do anything BUT dumb things down. To think otherwise is naive at best. And simpler does equal "dumber". You could argue that it's sometimes an improvement, but it is what it is.
Anyway, there's a lot of depth to be found in managing your AP pool, both in the attributes that feed it and balancing skill uses of various costs. All of it is effectively being cut out if they change to a fixed pool. Maybe they can replace it with something else, but I'm not that optimistic.
