If you notice when the developers first showed how they were going to put EDs in they had Artificer Sphere in the Arcane Caster Sphere,I could have lived with that.
The point is a Sphere that you have to start in should have Fates/Stat gains that enhance the abilities that were available to your initial class,this goes for Stat points like Dex for the Xbow Arti, Str/ for the melee based Arti,and Int for the caster based Arti.
Things that are available to the class in enhancements and Feats from level 1-20 should be complemented by the first required Tree.
I made and leveled up my character to do what I chose from 1-20,my first Sphere choice would obviously be the one that compliments my preferred chosen Artificer skills.
If, after you do what was available to the Artificer,you decide to try new abilities then you would have to work your way through the Sphere/Trees
DDO didn't do it this way,the way it should have been.
Artificers should have gotten thier own sphere with Dex and Int choices for stat gains Not Int and Charisma for example not thrown into a sphere that was meant for other classes,you know the one you showed at the Destiny Roundtable and is still on DDOWiki.
Maybe I should have put "Artificers want thier own Sphere" as my title