I don't have any proof at the moment, all from experience, I played few months before Velious release to PoP, and I remember clearly 5min 50sec mark is when I was able to loot all the time (since you need to right click to loot and until you can loot it will show the 'xx min xx seconds left on the corpse, you do not have permission to loot') message, I have done that thousands of times during the three expansions.
I am one of those people who has pet peeve for spending unnecessary GM points and I am very certain you didn't need to spend GM points for mend/sneak/sense heading, even for language like dragon I will find someone who speaks so that I can train with someone else (you can train someone to be 1 point higher than your skill, so with one person having just 1 point, both people can max the skill) and that way I don't need to waste the GM points. If you level 1-30 and spam sense heading during combats and running around, that's probably 10000s of clicks, and no skill raise probably means you need to put a point to raise.
If I remember correctly only things you ever needed to put a point was any skills obtained after level 1, and fletching
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