I am opposed. Why? Snowball effect. We've seen enough snowballing homebrew. Change this and watch how it screws up 5 other things which then screws up 10 more things.
No thanks. I can only hope they will likely have a ton of spells to choose from for full release - hopefully - and hopefully they will also balance everything out based on difficulty settings and we won't have weird imbalances like the OP is talking about.
In short, it's not usually as easy as it seems or as you are making it sound.
