I wrote down all these ideas, with the intention of showing that gaining certain abilities can be more interesting than a skill tree, but not all of them must be allowed at once if that's what devs are trying to do. It could be possible to make the skills acquirable in-game which wi...
Mod for Project Zomboid which allows users to craft journals, record gained skills, and recover lost skill progression. - Chuckleberry-Finn/Skill-Recovery-Journal
Of course i am not saying give every single skill a downside for the sake of it. (I don't think you can as skill trees aren't associated with downsides in games). lets make dst be the first of its kind either way while i like this idea the structure of the skill tree would have...