D&D General Hypothetical: D&D without ability scores (or bonuses)

[Twiggly the Gnome]

Not sure why this..

Skills
Animal Handling
Arcana
Charisma
Constitution
Deception
Dexterity
History
Intelligence
Intimidation
Medicine
Nature
Perception
Performance
Religion
Sleight of Hand
Stealth
Strength
Survival
Wisdom

... would be not-D&D.

 

[Marc17]

Seems removing the ability scores and bonuses would make the PCs a little bit less powerful and even less differentiated from each other, just to make the game trivially less complicated. Would I play it? There are few games I wouldn't play at least once, but I don't see such a change being a net positive for the game and would probably hurt my chance of ever playing it twice.