I've been researching this, and I think we may have missed something - MM pg 290 says that a character with hit dice doesn't get any ability score increases for the race's default HD, but does get them for every 4 HD. I think what that means is that the 3 HD Bugbear gets an ability score increase once it has 4 HD/levels, but a 4 HD creature won't get their first ability score increase until 8 HD/levels.
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