Interesting. So...it wasn't something that first appeared in a game that people now want to see put into other games? It was just a bunch of gamers who thought the idea of having "Respec" in every game imaginable would be cool?
Something along those lines... gamers that play a certain way, every single game they play. Find the most powerful crap, be they objects or skills or whatever. Then, whe you find out something else is more powerful, but you've completely invested in something else entirely, waste all of the work you did and recycle it into something new that may very well be completely different. I haven't seen it much, but it would not surprise me if these very same people would also want to respec weapons, armor, any enchanted gear, and NOT have that gear lost, unmake potions, etc. It's all about getting the most powerful stuff and USUALLY this is because skillz levels are so low they'd be completely massacred without it. Usually this is a result of playing a lot of online/MMO stuff, like WoW, Starcraft, etc., where every individual is pretty much exactly the same as the next. It's funny too, because the IDEA behind MMO RPGing is a good one, where you don't need to get 5 or 6 flaky fellows together on the same day, for 6 or 12 hours at a pop, but can still get many of the benefits of PnP RPGs (different chars). It's ironic that this has led to a bunch of robotic players playing characters that wind up being the same vanilla random NPCs (for all intents and purposes). Anyway, this is the way they play, and hey, to each his own, you like that, good for you. BUT, please, really, don't tell me that Arrested Development would be so much better if they sounded like Metallica, who would be so much better if they sounded like Volbeat. Sorry grinders, grinding, respecing, has no place at all in a SP RPG. You made a mistake, your PC is never going to be your "ideal" character. Live with it. And, for crissakes, have some damn FUN with the game, interactions, story, quests, glory. It's about so much more than regretting spending a single perk in speech. Sheesh.