I'm neutral - part of me likes the redesign we got going on in BG3 because it actually promotes differences between your cantrips - like, aside from a die of damage and Ray of Frost reducing movement speed... there's not a huge difference between Ray of Frost and Fire Bolt. They're both "Point and shoot" cantrips where Fire Bolt will ignite whatever item is being targeted as long as it isn't being worn or carried. Basically, I like this change because it adds to controlling the battlefield as a wizard and trying to be more creative than just "This is my heavy crossb- er, I mean my Ray of Frost spell". The part that's against it is... well, yeah, AoE on cantrips is pretty powerful - why wouldn't I make more use of my cantrips than my big spells when my cantrips tend to do more for me?
I think, right now with us only being able to reach level 4/5, it's too early to call whether or not the change needs to be applied. We need to get into the real meat of the wizards and sorcerers with their Big spells rather than the few level 1 and 2 spells we have. Like, if later on Fireball doesn't cause a similar effect to Fire Bolt - when it was way more of a reason to - then some changes do need to be made, haha.
