yea but when you pt with LS friends it's not a big deal. I find it annoying to have to skill up weapons for hours upon hours later (especially 2 handed weapons). Basically 60% of a level capping GK, then the rest with Polearm. It's not as if it's horrible. We were killing all the colibri at the tower too fast as it was, 1 more bird there would be nice. nothing wrong with 650-700+ Yukis and Gekkos. Imps next anyways lol.
It doesn't seem like a good trade off to me in terms of time spent. I'd rather take an extra hour getting the same amount of XP using GK and switching to polearm when capped instead of having to spend 6 hours getting 10 levels to cap GK later.