- It doesn't fit the archetype of beast used. Which matters for the already-mentioned reason of internal consistency.
- There are ALREADY other kinds of giant spiders with ranged attack in the D&D bestiary that could ALREADY cover that exact role without flipping Phase spiders upside down.
You do know you'r just posting opinions right??? The tone you used sounds like you belive those to be facts?
Those two are facts.
here is a long to 5e Phase Spider. As claimed by Tuco it is a different monster archetype (more of a rogue? Disappear and stab) then what was delivered (snipe from distance and teleport away).
And I found
Weaving Spider, which might not be an exact copy of Larian’s reimagining of Phase Spiders, but there indeed is a ranged spider archetype, which Larian could use if they wanted to have a ranged spider.
