User blog comment:A, Mori/Yet Another Mori RPG Redesign/@comment-26353693-20160404172143/@comment-16075172-20160404173258

In older stories, many RPG battles happened, and in newer stories more likely RPG battles are possible going to be replaced with regularly written battles; if the latter does end up happening then these sections can be considered RPG-ified versions of an actual list of a character's combat-related abilities, thus still giving them relevance

Stats themselves will probably become wasted tho if we cease the RPG battle format thing. Not saying that that's a sure thing we're getting rid of, tho, just saying it's pretty likely