Andhaira
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I suspect it is only a matter of time until somebody tries to break the game by having one party member entirely useless in traditional combat, but smugly pumping every bit of the non-combat skills to the utmost to take advantage of the dev's clarification above on such things not stacking while the rest just become focused engines of whatever sort of destruction and defense.
An option like that being available would not be game breaking, but good design. You could roleplay that character as a diplomat or aristocrat/noble, who had a top quality education but then fell into hard times, and thus used his last few gold to hire some adventurers to protect her.