Yea, way too many. I guess the spec talents are better because we can avoid it by picking a functional talent, instead. As long as they aren’t hiding anything underneat, of course. But the class ones, they seem worse and it happens multiple times.
I didn’t see DF alpha but Evokers still have this issue. Way too many talents doing nothing more than alter a bit of a stat while blocking progress. Worse, you gotta spend 2 points on some of them.