We hear that some people want to have more skills on their bar. We do not agree that more skills are strictly better or simple a QOL change. This is a very significant game design decision with large implications on gameplay. Even if we wanted to change it, we do not have the time between now and launch to make this change without compromising other features or extending the launch target. These costs are too high to entertain this as a viable option.
I will encourage everyone to continue the discussion with the fact that we will not be changing this pre-1.0 in mind. I say pre-1.0 because after launch, we can afford to set people on longer term tasks like this. It might not seem like it but this would require many people to spend a very long time on. Post launch it is extremely unlikely but not impossible.