There's gotta be some measure of how long an avatar has played, some way to reward those who actually worked their way up instead of bought their way to greatness.
That this is one of the main points of those who voted no.
We don't want folks able to boost stats like that. It may not be a fully rational choice given that skills can be bumped already, but we sort of cling to stats as the last baseline left to be able to get a real feel for who and what a player is about.