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Simple, it is magic ....... unassailable and all powerful.

RAW there is no ambiguity here. If you step on caltrops and fail the save (which you can choose to do) your speed is reduced to zero so...

IMO it does not make them brainless or in any way change their state of mind. Nothing in the spell description says they are frightened...

Activating a device of teleportation would be fine if it is "interact with an object" as that is specifically part of your movement...

This is not true, there are plenty of artists that use AI to help with illustrations and then that material is copyrighted. Just look...

No it doesn't. This was true in 3E but in 5E there is no 5 foot minimum move. There are optional rules for playing on a grid in 5E but...

Sure, but the examples cited, which are corner cases that don't come up that often, are not typically equal. Command is a powerful...

The DM is IMO or making an arbitrary decision on which way is fastest or if they are both exactly equal then sure the player can decide.

I get your other arguements, but if this is the case and they have agency and choice in the matter why move at all. And if they have to...

I don't tie players to the thematic constructs of their classes. Clerics: While Clerics do typically choose deities, I have had a...

I agree with you here. Lava is not defined in 5E AFAIK. I've had DMs play with it being difficult terrain, I've had DMs play with it...

I don't see anything in the description as if of its free will. IME it is about as much "free will" as when the target is turned into a...

I would put Wizards pretty high. Maybe behind Clerics, and Druids but ahead of Sorcerers and Bards

In a world with magic and find familiar no intelligent being would allow spiders or any other animal that could be a familiar to walk...

There is no decision point in the spell's description. It's intended, I think, to be weighed against forced movement. Given you don't...