This just shows, that you can't compare those two games, because you have not played the first.
But I did... I also talked about it. In my opinion neither system is bad. In DOS1 it just felt like wasted points in resistances, since it took the same points for the schools (which open up cool spells).
Silly they there is no real way to counter being webbed...
I think if you burn it you can move again (at least a friend told me so). So the counter is to have a candle in your backpack and 1 AP to drop it.
