Quote Originally Posted by Malisteen View Post
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Hexblade, along with pact of the blade, should have been a separate half-pact-caster from the start, basically. WotC's allergy to adding new classes and insistance on trying to cram too many conceptual and mechanical concepts into the too-tight confines of a subclass, then shove those subclasses up under the skirts of too few existing classes is the real problem with hexblade, and just banning hexblade doesn't get rid of that problem, because its frustrating effects can be felt all over 5e.
This sums up my main issue with 5e in general. Too often, they're hammering a square peg into a round hole, just because they can't be bothered to punch more holes. Favored Soul is another example of 'shouldn't exist as a subclass' (whether or not it should exist as a class is another discussion).