Adept Ways DO NOT count as a Positive Quality or towards the MAX positive Qualities

[AndrewD2]

Also note that author intent does not mean what the developer will finally go with. Catalyst has the option to use all, some, or none of what the author gives them if the developer doesn't think it fits. I know stuff like this happens a lot with Paizo as well (as I'm friends with a number of their freelancers/writers). So at the time the author wrote it, he may have intended for it to be one way, but Catalyst decided differently after they had it in their hands.