Agreed, the work load in establishing this new category is in no way matched by the advantages it entails. Really all this reads as is "lets create a class so we can shuffle all the stuff of priest/courtier/infil/trader into it, which pretty much sums up the old problem with 2 characters anyway, the bulk of them were faceless support characters to do all the crap that nobody wanted to waste a main character on (with the exception of infils).
