Or ... they decided to separate them.

As it was pointed out by people, Paladin was quite anoying in Solasta, where you needed co confrim (or deny) Smite for every single strike your character do. :-/

So, if Larian would concider this ...
They may decide to make smite just as Battlemaster manouvers (or Sneak attack) are right now ...
And make separate button "+ use smite" into reaction ... i mean, if we will be confrimmind AOO, there is no harm done if there will be 3 buttons saying "no", "yes", "yes, with smite" ... instead just "yes" and "no" ...

Sure, Paladins would loose change to fish criticals for their smiting, but speaking for myself, that is cost i would be willing to pay ... it allways seemed kinda weird to be honest.

I still dont understand why cant we change Race for our hirelings. frown
Lets us play Githyanki as racist as they trully are! frown