Can Point-Buy RPG Systems Be Balanced, No Matter How Complex? Do We Need them Anyway? (Like GURPS)

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I have come to the conclusion that point-buy systems, like GURPS, are not balanced, regardless of the amount of granularity they put into their character generation systems. So, do we even need them, with their added complexity?

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