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Magic is more flexible than 3.x and more reigned in. There is no caster level; you need to cast spells with a higher spell slot to get more oomph. Most buffs require Concentration. While you concentrate on a spell, you can act freely but not cast another spell that requires concentration. So...

Now, I am confused. I understand that you can modify your game however you like. I do not understand how the game itself can provide a method to do so, nor do I understand why you can't do it with current iterations of the game.

That depends on what you consider a full caster. That's the whole point why people are arguing about this. I think most people consider "full-caster" the same as "uses 9th level spells" or "casts as many spells as a wizard does". Those two already have different implications. Because the only...

The problem is that the only applicable currency (i.e. skill points) is only available on a level up. You could have them spend experience directly but that was bad in 3.5 to begin with. You could have them do spell research for gold pieces to make their Comprehend Language spells work. I'd...

Because the majority of people in the world doesn't have a character class at all.

Mostly consolidated information. The last sentence here is new indeed, although we could have surmised that much: Warlock might be nice container for shamans, too, that is ancester or spirit pacts.

Yes. And that's the way it worked in 3.5 as well.

Invocations appear to be at-will (cf. OP). SPELLS are per short rest.

Hmmm. Are the lists of spells known/prepared separate as well? Can I power my mage spells with warlock slots?

For Sorcerer spells, I can imagine spells that break stuff down and let chaos ensue. A Wizard on the other hand might have more "constructive" magic. So a Wizard might summon Black Tentacles, where a Sorcerer turns the ground into mud. I think you can create a distinctive spell list, even if...

That doesn't surprise me. Unless I'm mistaken, no one in the fan base has proposed a way to convert spell slots into power uses. And the people at WotC use the same ingredients for their cooking.

And there was I, thinking that fire damage is worth less because fire resistance is more common.

Which makes the rule terrible. If multiclassing works level by level, it should not be dependent on the order of levels taken.

Not really. Unless you want to say, that they take more time resolve than a single more powerful attack. That is certainly true.

That doesn't solve the problem at hand though. Even if you call the Flurry class feature an Extra Action, it's clear you cannot combine it with Extra Attacks from Fighter or Two-Weapon Fighting or that Rogue feature. We still don't know how Flurry works.

Boring it would be for sure, but I don't think it's balanced either. That would require the schools to be balanced in the first place. At least in 3.x that wasn't the case.

In the playtests no wizard school got additonal spells. Usually certain spells are better for the "right" caster. By that method, a Necromancers zombies would be stronger.

I thought about what could make possible further subclasses for each of the classes in the playtest. It occured to me that the classes are quite different in that manner. At the top of the list we have the cleric. We can easily imagine a cleric domain for anything but waste disposal. Magic...

Wasn't that the case since public playtest finished?

That's the problem. You cannot transfer the "heart of the matter", as you call it, somewhere else. What you are referring to is not a separate thing surround by more peripheral elements in the system, but the emergent properties that result from the various elements in the system interacting...