And the sorcerer's flavour is also more preeminent than the wizard's. How I'd like to have a wizard studying chaos magic or dragon sorceries instead of a scholar of one of the 8 schools!The Metamagic allowing the 'upgrading' of spells gives the Sorcerer a huge edge in efficiency and power. While the Wizard is more iconic, the sorcerer is clearly the most effective.
It's a very good point.Magic will never "feel magical or mystical" so long as we have a list of defined spells.
You are asking for D&D to be something it can't, and never was, other than when the books were a vast and unknown field to you, rather than dancing on your digital fingertips.
I voted warlock as wellPact magic and invocations are better than spell slots, so warlock wins by default.
It is not hard to reflavor the sorcerer bloodlines into wizard schools.And the sorcerer's flavour is also more preeminent than the wizard's. How I'd like to have a wizard studying chaos magic or dragon sorceries instead of a scholar of one of the 8 schools!