Sadly not only the armor system ruins the hybrids, attributes do the same. They got so dumbed down, that they give no longer secondary benefits. Not to mention that leveling attributes in general got pretty pointless. Character progression overall got reworked into a empty shell. Your option at every level ups are: more damage, more damage, more damage, more life, more skills or more damage via crit (thanks to round robin initiative can be pretty much ignored). Also the biggest damage boost you probably get anyway because of the level scaling and not because of the attributes themselves.
And skill trees themselves do not longer encourage investment. Summoner is the only skill tree that offers some great, if you put 10 points into it, all other skill trees are kind of the same fruit in different colors. Also there are those two go always skill trees: warfare because it boost all physical damage best and polymorph because getting extra intelligence helps you best with magic.
