Nope no need to stress about leveling anymore. The remaster completely fixed that old exploit in an elegant way - enemies scale way more reasonably now. Instead of avoiding skill gains just play naturally and youll get 12 attribute points each level which you can freely assign wherever you want.

All your skills contribute to leveling progress now, both major and minor ones. The enemy scaling matches your organic progression so you wont suddenly hit a wall of overpowered bandits, which is what caused all that leveling anxiety before.

Goes really smooth now actually - just focus on playing how you want and the progression will work itself out. The system rewards natural gameplay, similar to how newer rpgs handle it.