DaveMage
Slumbering in Tsar
I am still wish I was a bug on the wall a year ago when someone said with a straight face "Lets give wizards more class features" I mean really, was there some player somewhere who thought it was weaker to take 17 levels of wizard that to take 30 levels of fighter???
The idea is not to increase a wizard's capability compared with a fighter, it is to increase the appeal of a straight wizard over a wizard + arcane spellcasting prestige class(es).
With 3.5 RAW, there's very little incentive to play a straight wizard beyond level 10 when there are prestige classes that give you the same benefits + extra significant prestige class benefits. The same problem applies to 3.5 RAW sorcerers.