I do hope that what we got in patch9 was an early iteration. The UI needed some work and more skills would benefit of this new system.
I can't help but wonder how many people who do not follow the "PFH" and forum discussions about the game even noticed the feature being there to begin with, frankly.
I already said this months ago, but I think that Larian's idea of "testing" this by making it a buried option disabled by default has been rather unfortunate.
Guess we''ll have to wait and see what conclusions they took from the experience, anyway.