In the end I tried it and although I'm still not very enthusiastic about the extra ability points, the extra feat really opens up a lot of cool possibilities so thank you for that 😊

Larian's Biggest Oversight, what to do about it, and My personal review of BG3 EA
"74.85% of you stood with the Tieflings, and 25.15% of you sided with Minthara. Good outweighs evil, it seems."