Okay, I get you now. Well, they're your starter skills and being able to select higher level skills that give you more options/effects wouldn't suit the purpose of starting you off with the basics. If you're saying that you'd forgo having an at-will, encounter, or daily at all to save points for something higher, I don't…
I think that you mean the two class skills (the tiny square ones atop one another in the power bar). You only get the benefit of what you slot in the power bar. If you open your powers screen that lists all of your powers (encounter, daily, at-will) you can click and drag them to your power bar. Of course, only a daily…