Yeah, I agree. Most people in the post are whining and saying it's a bad idea, mostly cause they feel it's not fair cause they had to work for it the hard way. But I think it would be a great idea. As Elidroth said, if a true new player comes in the game right now it is really hard for them to get up to speed and able to play with anyone. It's not very common to be able to get groups while leveling up, and when you get to max level if you don't have the AAs you are nearly useless to groups.
This drives new players from the game, because they get bored or tired of playing for 2 or 3 months just to get to a point where they can finally group with other people and do things without feeling useless.
I think auto granting those AAs to help get new characters up to speed faster is a great idea.