If WotC REALLY wants to make short rests viable for other classes, make the sorcerer replenish one point if out on initiative, but a higher amount on any short rest (up to your max). Numbers being made up: You recover 4 Sorcery points on a SR, or 1 point if you roll initiative and have no points.
I would take it a step further.
Lets do the same to battlemaster superiority dice, wild shapes, bardic inspiration, rage, arcane recovery, currently divinity, discipline points and pact magic and you got a deal. One use/point/slot/dice per SR and none on initiative. Oh and one HD max per use. Then we can bring SR down to 10 minutes or less.
Magic incarnate, a magical beast shaped like a human/elf/whatever. While the individual sorcerer can be an oddity or a wonderful occurrence, the sorcerer magic is essentially natural and intuitive, like breathing. Moreover, a sorcerer's magic is wholly internal not reliant on an external entity. As a sorcerer, you aren't borrowing your dragon ancestor power, your power comes out of you being part dragon. You aren't using a deity's power, your power is the manifestation of a miniature divine spark. Being just a chaneller takes away a lot of the uniqueness of the sorcerer. While other casters can't be mechanically cut down from their benefactor, lorewise they can. At the same time, the only way to stop a sorcerer from using magic should be death, and sometimes not even that.
I think I'll add a feature that lets sorcerers ignore dispel/counter/anti magic while in their ''rage'' mode at higher level. That could be cool.
Yeah. The "innate" magic is super-important to me too. Strictly never a material component. I despise the costly spell component, and resent the fact that it is mechanically ineffective, inconsistent and pointless. And generally oppose all spell components, whether Verbal, Somatic, Material, or Costly, for good measure. I am a fan of psionics because it is innate, the power of intention.
