Yup. It's just classic bad design, a hangover from the "apology edition" days that because the current team are profoundly blue-pilled re: D&D, and thus cannot see where there's something absolutely needless going, they can't get rid of.
To clarify, I was talking about whether all spells are actually spells within the fiction, or if the spell is just a handy mechanical container for effects, and they're reskinnable within the fiction.
I would bet on race features remaining prof times between long rests, if only because they already printed that model in MotM. Plus it just “feels right” for usage of inborn abilities like that to scale with proficiency bonus IMO. Paladins already have a short rest benefit in the playtest - Channel Divinity recovers one use on a short rest, all on a long rest. Rogues I think are likely to remain short rest agnostic. Their shtick in 5e has always been action economy management over resource management.
Would be kinda nice for rage to adopt the “regain one use on a short rest, all uses on a long rest” model though, now that you mention it.
it would be nice if they make short rest really short then.
I don’t think Eldritch Adept is likely to be a 1st level feat
Honestly, that makes the move back to Cha-only warlocks even more irritating. God forbid I want to play an Int-primary Eldritch Knight, or Wis-primary melee cleric.
I suspect they changed it because they realized if you can cast it at will without a spell slot, you can just keep recasting it until you roll an 8 anyway. So they figured this change would save some time, and never even considered making it not the spell.
This. The same goes for Detect Magic taking 10 minutes rather than being proactively up all the time. Both invocations feel weak but have their place and aren't covered by the ritual. So strengthen them.
