Yaarel
🇮🇱He-Mage
Spell components that have a costly component directly prevent innate spellcasting.Why? If its a negligible cost, as you outline, why does it matter?
Also, they interfere with casting classes. For example, the intention is the Dance Bard casts spells via Somatic gestures, but those spells with a Verbal contradict this.
Meanwhile, the material components are almost always a waste of space, when a Wizard uses a wand, and a Cleric uses a holy symbol instead.
The spell descriptions become cleaner and clearer, and the classes become more distinctively flavorful, when 2024 deletes the spell components from the spell descriptions.