I agree with the OP. Someone also posted the following within their reply ""In general, I don't want a lot of rules associated with roleplaying, honestly.""
The problem I have with how it is now is with all the focus on feats/skills being towards combat, rp seems to be an afterthought to the game. In terms of drawing new rpg players into the game, since rp is barely mentioned in all this and everything is combat it will only attract hack n slash types (read- WoW players...). Those that are attracted to the aspect of role playing in a tabletop game will grab up another game system that seems to have more of an rp flavor in it's handbook.
This is just my opinion, and I hope I'm wrong.
