Glad I finished reading what you were saying before commenting. Specifically when you added “good-balanced system.” For that I do agree some.
I think that these builds I described might actually have a huge advantage after this update where regen becomes slower. A full AGI VIT GRIT will have the best of all worlds. They will have maxed grit, which offers one of two incredibly defense bonuses (as well as max stam) they will be able to do maximum damage attacks with a shortword (Agi) and buff further into it if they would like, and behind all of that also be able to heal any damage they do take.
Also, this new update aparently includes a light armor chestpiece that causes the user to do +16% AGI damage. That will be the most damage boosting single piece available on its release.
I’m not trying to say you’re wrong here. For the record you’re right- they could gain even more damage by investing in strength technically, but a full investing into these three is something I have a bad feeling about fighting personally. Either way, it should be fun to see what ways these things can be combatted. This is the exact reason I was as happy as I was to find a hard counter to Glutton today!