They added stats to a lot of the feats in the onednd releases, probably because the complaint about having to pick either ASI or feat that may not give any ASI was too restricting, which is an old complaint from the beginning of 5e. A lot of people were coming from 3.5 and 4e, where your ASI and feats were not only separate, but came more often, so to go from 5 ASI boosts AND 10 feats, to 4 (or 7 if you're a fighter) ASI boosts OR feats, was a bit of an ask imo.
I've said it before, but I still think pathfinder 2e did it better, with ASI on your ancestry, background, and class.
