Excellent post. Personally I like to see the various approaches to achieve a desired result in game and use the one that works best for me. Sometimes there is a source book limit or I want to use the feats on something else. Perhaps using the Educated Wilder Variant is plenty of powers for a PC particularly in a Gestalt game (Imagine the Gestalt Game using a Spells to Power Erudite cherry picking powers and spells from all lists and using Wild Surge to bump up ML (the Erudite could pick up an additional +2 WS from pursuing Anarchic Initiate for 7 levels).