Personally I’ll happily go with a company that (1) apologizes and (2) sees that we can f*ck with the money if they piss us off enough and reacts accordingly.
I feel like the book of many things is going to be a dumping ground of “all the rules we made for 5e that we don’t have a place for in 6e but need to profit in anyway”
I am excited for both Planescape and am curious on Phandelver
On this same note: there is precedence. In an unearthed arcana article leading up to strixhaven, WotC attempted this. It didn’t make the cut but I’m pretty sure they went back to the drawing board with it rather than scrapping the idea
I’m not saying every subclass is designed to be cross class but having some be is awesome.
I personally am getting tired of “here are 70 different archetypes that all amount to eldritch warrior”.
I don’t believe it was intended to be palatable more that it was “this is what’s coming and this is the best offer you are gonna get” strong arming.
Sort of a “give this idea legitimacy by signing this now and we will give you this tiny concession”