Most of the players are endgame, there aren't many new players in the rom.
if the devs/owner/designer of this game would think like that, the game will die very very soon. You can't get many new players, if there are no playerfriendly newcomer changes, that make their start very friendly.
having multiple "low level" stats is a good way, that new players can have a usefull gear to participate in random groups without only playing wl/m, s/p, ch/d or any other 1 click support class, that does nothing else. People want to have a feeling, that they are useful