What drives a poor reputation for the Rogue class?

[Psyren]

I'm not overly fond of just slapping spell on everything as a fix. Not only does it reinforce the idea that all cool options are spells, it lazy and the power budget is all over the place.

Then you have the same issue you have with racial spells regarding components.

You say lazy, I say efficient. All that text and metatext is already in the spell chapter so pointing a feature there makes a lot of sense.

Spells are also already benchmarked by class level in terms of relative power. It's not perfect by any means, but designers, players, and DMs can look at a feature that grants Nondetection and gauge whether that's truly worthwhile at 9th level when casters are getting it at 5th and half-casters at 7th, potentially multiple times per long rest even.