And for the record, I totally agree with him on skills. Unfortunately, they are needed to encourage different trades (why be a repairman if everyone is equally good at repairing?), but you should be able to ignore them if you want to.
Then, I don't share his sentiment against the percentile meters. You will KNOW how hurt you are, if you have an in-game hour to get out of the initial shock of OH MY GOD HE JUST RAN ME THROUGH WITH A SABER! But that is perhaps a subject for another thread.