A D&D problem, but yes.
I think it's a bad design in 5e to force a choice between ability score increase or a feat. Who cares if the characters become a little bit more powerful getting both. Feats help make fun unique characters, but often it's better to just take +2 in your main stat. Having played 3e where ASIs and feats were separate, it's even more obvious that starving PC's of feats was not a good or fun design choice.
