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Bard as I said isn't a good class for being a smiter due to BA heavy class. Bladesinger can use smite but lets be honest the most poweful bladesinger gameplay is DON'T use the attack action, just be a very tanky wizard that casting wizard spell is way more powerful than hit someone twice and add...

Sorry but I fail to understand what is your logic here. First, the good old 14 soc /6 pal build already better at smiting than pure paladin (you can even argue being a better sorcerer). Second, in term of action economy, now the new smites require a BA so bards is out cause they are BA heavy...

I think is more like when wizard prepare a spell they don't like they can just change it out after a long rest; warlock they need to stick with the spells and invocations until level up, or beg DM let them change it.

Extra two are a tiefling and a elf.

Let's do a quick counting of species we know will be inside : human, elf, dwarf, halfing, gnome, dragonborn, tiefling, aasimar, goliath, orc. It is 10 already. Looks like no more half-elf/orc then.

If you have read this adventure then you will know that in the book players do having chance find out the secret villain before him reveal himself and thus, skip a chapter if player defeat him earlier. And the Rod do play more roles at final chapter besides add some damage when bonking Vecan.

Reaction spell mean they don't block paladin's other bonus action features, and beside smites there are also other bonus action spell in divine list that can activate again with BA like Spiritual Weapon. Smites block them all out is a feature, not a bug, to limite paladin's nova power.

Half fiend is cambion, they are still fiend type creature that aren't playable species in 5e. Tieflings are more like distant descendant to their fiend ancestor. Not to mention there might other ways to make tieflings like a pact with fiend or just live with a nearby portal to lower planes.

From Young Adventurer’s Guide series Warriors and Weapons

Searing smite's con is it does fire damage, so you basically can't use it to smite most fiends. On the other hand when you smite those things with divine smite, it got extra damage that can count as free upcast.

Probably no, as usual.

The later one, it is a anti-invisible spell that guarantee to work every time you cast it.

It isn't, at least when there is a divine smite that don't require bonus action. I never saw any players I have played with ever cast those smite spells. Those riders often also gate behind a save and require concentration. So not only you trade damage and bonus action, they also prevent you...

I mean, isn't that what spell components V, S, M are for?

It is quit clear WotC's goal is nerf paladin's nova ability. No matter what divine smite changes, as long as they can smite multiple times in a turn OR stackable with smite spells, it is fail to meet the goal. And there's also a hard line that no spell will be removed nor change level, including...

WoTC have a hardline that won't remove any spell nor change the spell level. They clearly want to nerf paladin's nova potential AND don't want divine smite stackable with other spell smite (or any bonus action spell) based on previous packet. At least this time it can stack with GFB and BB if...

screenshot from DND Beyond's Sage Advice Compendium

Well... this part isn't true if you follow the definition of what things are "magical" based on sage advice compendium's ruling. Long story short, divine smite is fueled by spell slot so it will be suppressed. But neither 2014's Improved Divine Smite nor packet 6's Radiant Strikes had wording...