I'd really like to see sorcerers have powers based on planar origin. Dragons etc. are Material Origin, Elemental Origin, Outer Planar Origin, Fey, and Shadow, and then sub-options for each subclass there based on the specifics.
Always makes me sad that the elemental sorcerers never managed to get through UA. And storm sorcery got through in such a pathetic state that it's like not having a subclass.
I actually kind of agree with that. Thematically, Arcane Recovery where once per day a caster can regain their spell slots feels more natural on a Sorcerer to me and the deep understanding of the mechanics of magic that allows the caster to hack the individual spells with metamagical augmentation feels more like a Wizard thing. It always kind of struck me as weird that they ended up the other way around in 5e especially since Metamagic when it was invented was imagined as the domain of Wizards.
There is probably also the fact that they removed scribe scroll and
Very true. I almost wonder if Metamagic wouldn't have just have been better off in 5e as simply feats and not associated with spell points and the Sorcerer at all, but allow anyone to grab a feat for Empowered Spell, Distant Spell, Subtle Spell, etc and the like to lean into a character concept or optimization focus. I know Tasha's had a feat that let you borrow some sorcery points and a metamagic option from the Sorcerer, but I am thinking of something more selfcontained and possibly more powerful to bring it in line with the powers of other feats. Perhaps Subtle Spell would be unlimited and Twinned Spell would be once a day or require liquidating additional spell slots.
That isn’t the distinction. “Preference” isn’t part of it. Having innate magic comes with basic magic. Development unlocks the signs of where that magic comes from.
Mechanics drive fiction. If I am playing a character whose magic comes entirely from their demon blood, it's a little weird if they can cast Hammer of Mechanus by default.
