True, the best I can do in actual cheat format is searching stats and SP changing. However you'll crash after a while either actual crash or have your game look like a convoluted mess of colors. Hex edit is the only way to do things there. PS I was worng Max Exp can be changed to 9999999/9 and you current/next exp will be negative. Just have to kill a mob to insta lv 99 with SP will be normal.
which is kind of pointless, unless you want to level reset a lot to gain status that way. Hex edit is faster on that... and I think I posted how to hex edit it and the stats being modified at length before. But, if you want to gain a lot of stats and fast without hex editing, go for it.