On PLEXes for Remaps

I feel the "PLEX for Remap" issue is being terribly blown out of proportion by the player base. People act like it will give people a huge advantage when they don't stop to consider that you still have to train the skills after the remap. Even when your stats are optimized, the training time is still significant. Why have attributes at all, then? There's still the opportunity cost. You either train things you're optimized for, or you train other things anyway at a suboptimal speed, or you wait a year to remap, or you pay a PLEX and remap now. Each time you take the PLEX route you diminish the significance of attributes, but you pay a large sum for that privilege.

I know people who stuck themselves into a remap that outlived its usefulness and would give a PLEX to reset and train other things. Plus, would it not make sense during one of your annual remaps to take a small detour down Charisma Lane, knowing you weren't going to spend an entire year in it, but getting good things like Trade, Social, and Leadership skills out of the way, then dropping a PLEX to remap again to the next important attribute set? Maybe if Charisma had a more significant role in the skill set such that there might actually be a year's worth of its skills worth training, it wouldn't be the neglected stepchild that it is now in the eyes of the remapping capsuleer. But that's a separate issue...