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OK, let's say I don't want to cast Conjure Minor Elementals on the off-chance they might be wasted. (Which rarely happens in my experience, usually I have a pretty good idea of when to cast it and except combat, but that's neither here nor there.) That's fine, I have the best spell list in the...

Or those elementals can actually run into a battle and make it trivial.

A Paladin has just as much of a chance of wasting a spell slot when it smites for overkill damage. Arguably far moreso.

They won't be spread out over 24. They'll be spread out over 16, since 8 of those hours every day are from a long rest. The chances of a "wasted slot" are thus much less than you are claiming. Plus, let's be real, it's usually very easy to anticipate when a combat encounter is going to happen.

If you're in any battle against more than one big enemy, and especially if those enemies stay at range, the Paladin isn't doing a thing.

So why single out grappling characters, and not spellcasters whose spell lists are all loaded with the kind of things that bypass all of the above?

The Wizard is a stronger class than the Paladin. That is the point.

I didn't. A Wizard who cast it before hand already has 8 creatures at the start of combat to instantly fill the battlefield with. The point is that it's utterly trivial for a Wizard to outshine any Paladin.

Did YOU notice that it lasts 1 hour? Do you realize how trivially a Wizard can boost their chances to succeed at concentration saves, or make it so attacks miss and they don't have to make them to begin with?

The Wizard really doesn't have to try hard to outshine a Paladin. Cast Hypnotic Pattern and shut a whole encounter down. Done. Cast Conjure Minor Elementals and instantly fill the battlefield with more obstacles and rack up damage well beyond what a Paladin's smite adds. Done. Cast Animate...

In my experience, if the wizard isn't outshining the paladin, the wizard player is not good at playing their class.

No, this statement is laughable. They weren't even one of the most powerful in 2014. Every full caster was better. They were just the best non-full caster, which is like winning junior varsity.

If they require a bonus action you can't use them with a reaction attack. The weapon masteries are the only reason they're not straight-up 2014 Monk tier.

OK, so I either take PAM or GWM and just have a bonus action that's better than anything smite can do, or I ignore those feats and intentionally gimp the character just so it can actually be a Paladin. Some choice there.

Action juggling could be worked around in a lot of cases by prebuffing.

I playtested it, too, and the class just felt bad to play. It was by far the most unpleasant experience I have ever had in 5e in any form, and I've played a 2014 Four Elements Monk. I was juggling bonus actions too many times, and at no point did a smite ever feel like an option at all. Simply...

If that was all that happened to its smite it'd be fine. The fact that it also takes a bonus action OTOH murders the class.

It's not getting a republish in Unearthed Arcana, which means WOTC considered the latest version fit for print. That is not a good thing in the Paladin's case. It's easily the weakest class for 2024.

Unless you're a Paladin. They suck in 2024.

Final Fantasy XVI should be nowhere near a top-10 anything list. It's not even top 10 in its own series.