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That being limited by spell slots thing very rarely works out in actual play.

Or the solution could be to give martials more than one way beside grappling to bypass the systems in place, the same way that casters have already had since the beginning of time. That you never thought of that as a solution tells me you would rather keep that caster and martial imbalance in...

I'll take that as a win.

Incorrect. Full casters can absolutely be gods at both. They have been demonstrated countless times of being capable of being both. That's why they're so much better than non-full casters.

Character power is not subjective.

You are using a data sample of players who don't bother doing basic things like scouting, using divination spells, taking Perception proficiency, to see what enemies might lie ahead.

Just as many spells look like they're going to be buffed for 2024.

Guarantee you if I replaced that Paladin with another Wizard the party would be improved. Guarantee you.

Paladins are the best non-full caster. Which means they're the captain of the JV team. My point, all along, is that it is unfair to single out Paladins for a nerf, which the 2024 version is getting, when the full casters are literally getting away with first-degree murder compared to the...

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.