You couldn’t be more right. The relationship between attributes and weapons is pretty unintuitive. If you start the game planning to go with a Strength or Faith build, you basically have to forget most of what you know. Like you pointed out, if you want to use a katana, don’t even think about investing in Dexterity.
Good post, here’s my vote.
PS: It’s not exactly the same issue, but it’s related. I’ll drop my topic here, feel free to stop by, leave a comment, and mention this thread too.