It probably has been brought up but aberrant mind sorcerer would just fit so easily into this game that I wouldn't be all that surprised if it does actually end up in the game at some point. Its a very fun and especially very flavorful class that really feels like you stand out from the average sorcerer. it would be interesting to see how they handle Telepathic Speech since well there isn't a whole lot of benefits for something like that in a game so maybe instead it would be something like having an aura that grants your proficiency bonus towards charisma saves to allies
The thing about the aberrant mind, along with clockwork soul and lunar sorcerer, is they are an order of magnitude better than the earlier sorcerer subclasses. The trouble with PHB content is it's old now, and looks it's age compared to more recent stuff.
I noticed that while rereading some of the PHB the other day too. Hunter Ranger is considered a pretty mediocre character now, but it is actually one of the better martial options we had back then, because so many of the options were just... not very good. Thief, Assassin, Champion, Berserker (thanks to exhaustion being super punishing), Beast Master, everything Monk... Basically, the only good options we had for martials were Totem Warrior Barbarian (for almost universal resistance and ritual spellcasting) + the ones with spellcasting (Paladin, Eldritch Knight, Arcane Trickster, Ranger). Valor Bards, Pact of the Blade Warlocks and any Cleric with the Divine Strike feature were arguably better martial characters than most martial characters.
