This got to be the stupidest 5e crap I've heard, combining feats and attribute gain for leveling. They need to just give all feats +1 attributes or separate them so you get both.
Why don’t you like half feats?
This is the only d&d edition to do this at least from the ones I've played. 3.5 and 4e both kept the ability gain & feats at specific levels and were separate from each other. I don't know off hand for previous versions from that but if I remember correctly 3.0 should be the same also as 3.5 was just a adjusted version of 3.
I can understand that when 4e came out they wanted to stream line and dumb the game down so it would run smoother. They had multiple problems with that version did the next and kept the same idea stream lining and dumbing it down. So here we are with +2 feat +1 plus minor feat and just a feat.
Shadowheart is a pretty good example for the problem, with her sporting the ability scores of 13, 13, 14, 10, 17, and 8. We have a negative, a flat zero, +2 con and three ability scores to improve. Larian used the basic point buy system with 27 points to spend.
Amazing