User blog comment:Jimeee/Skyrim 1.9 beta update adds Legendary difficulty and raises level cap (Updated Apr 8th)/@comment-67.185.243.235-20130322060404/@comment-5198194-20130325134451

It gains you more perks than before at a much higher rate. At the higher levels, gaining perks is a very slow process with lots of grinding. This allows you to get perks at a much faster rate again, and get many more than possible before, along with still having your old earned perk points to redistribute. Theoretically, this could allow someone to be an effective jack-of-all-trades build, and be level 100 (or higher) in everything, and have all perks in the entire game. The cost? Having to work for your old perks back.