[LordSkie]

and endurance bonuses are also cut the higher you go in level. Not to mention you get less xp from fights as you get stronger, meaning you have to fight increasingly powerful targets to get decent xp, increasing your chances of losing, making levels very difficult to achieve indeed. Stats are easy as you like to train, levels aren't, at least past 30 they're not. Stats never get harder to train.

I'd hardly call the level bonus huge. It doesn't help with crimes, it doesn't help in battle (apart from HP, which is negligible unless you're at least 5 levels higher) the happiness+EP increase is offset by the fact endurance efficiency is reduced, and obviously training more=much bigger happiness cost. The only thing that levels give you which is a true advantage is the AP increase, which is good. But as far as training or fighting goes, that doesn't help you one jot.