I mean, putting 20 points in INT gives something like 240 mana. That's a single cast of Drain Soul. If you weren't capped on STA, that's approximately how much you'd get from putting the points there instead, except you don't have to cast anything to benefit from it, and the value is capitalized upon every single time you're the target of a CH whereas the increased mana pool only helps you once each time you go from full mana to OOM in a single encounter. Literally anytime you are CHed more than once every half hour or something, you got more out of putting the points in STA, unless you cap that stat without doing so. Also anytime you die, there's a chance that a few hundred extra HP would have given healers enough time to save you. Mana pool never does that.
If you absolutely never do anything that includes being the target of healing spells, it won't matter. If you live your life fear-kiting solo, you could probably have half your current HP and it would never make any difference as that gameplay simply doesn't make it relevant. But if you want to try to do some serious tanking with a knight, the #1 priority is to do everything you can to make it as efficient as possible. The only way knights get to ever tank anything on raids is if they eke out every little bit of extra tankiness to minimize the gulf between them and warriors. If that has no bearing on you, obviously it doesn't matter.
The safest route is to go with a race that ensures you'll cap your STA, even if that ends up meaning you've exceeded the cap by a bit and technically "wasted" some stat points. At the end of the day, none of the other stats have any impact whatsoever on how well you perform as a tank. At any given moment, you could reduce all of your other stats to 75 and it would literally be unnoticeable (except for your max melee hits, I guess). That's why the only race choices that are worth taking the time to discuss are regen for soloing or ogre for FSI and the highest STA. Anything else is just vague fashionquest that doesn't warrant the bandwidth it takes to post about it because nobody has ever benefitted from hearing "just play what you think looks best!" Everyone already knew that.
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