Unless IMC decides to make stat growth on STR stupidly high, the future of this game is DEX>CON>STR.
There is no point in waiting for future changes. Here’s why: a change came and now the other stat you were thinking is better, but in the future the stat you have now might be better.
If you don’t see the problem, it’s that waiting for future changes will only make you wait more and more because even more future changes will happen.
You also cannot compare swordies to archers. Archers have swift step as well as innate crit rate. They are able to split their stats evenly and be just fine.
Swordies, on the other hand, do not have those luxuries. It is much harder for them to stat correctly.
Hoplite helps allevate the problem due to finestra. Doppels have DoV which favors STR, and Fencers have Epee Stance that favors crit hits.
So, yes, while STR may be good on Doppels, that does not mean Dragoons are good with STR.
And R7 cap =/= R8 cap.