[Autumn]

If you remove aptitude you might run into the issues where hard min-maxing is a thing rather than slotting in efficient usages of aptitude, someone who might not need STR or CEL or GUI for example (Like every tanky autohitter in the game) would suddenly get away with a lot of stats if adjusted for, but someone who would need lots of stats would just be punished.

You would quite literally have to adjust every racial base to go up by 8 on average and even that'd cause some inherent issues with scaling later down the line.

Its too late to be able to cut Aptitude out of the picture, the game's system already has it in mind and it'd be very hard to recover from just taking it out.