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5e offers three ways to generate ability scores: dice rolls, the standard array, and point buy. Sounds like you're using the point buy variant in this game.
https://media.wizards.com/2018/dnd/downloads/DnD_BasicRules_2018.pdf#page=9
It also gives bonuses to certain ability scores based on the race you choose (or maybe some other criteria in whatever changes they've made for One D&D) so 16 isn't really the max even at level 1.
That's the only way when I did the character creation. But I am glad that we don't have to do the dice roll one(which is a cheat engine magnet), so I guess it means in order to gain from 16->17 I would need to subtract more points from other stats just to level up 1 point.(cause that + button didn't light up when I reduced 2 or 3 points from Wisdom) but it seems that's very costly trade. A point to point seems more fair and let you create some crazy biased char out of gate.