I feel for you
- I learned 5ed/Larian homebrew with BG3, my knowledge being 2/3/3.5 editions from other games.
I share your opinion about Valour and Sword Bards - IMO these should drop down to being "half casters". And don't get me going on Paladins and Rangers NOT getting Cantrips ... but that's 5ed, not Larian.
I share the "reset at Long/Short Rest" abilities hoarding problem (this going for potions and scrolls too). I've been playing since early 2023 (EA) and only 2-3 months ago I began to go "all out" on the first 2-3 rounds of combat.
For my Bards I now often go two levels of Fighter and ten of Bard, accepting the loss of two spellcasting levels (ESL), but getting Action Surge which resets on Short rest, for the two Shatter/Fireballs/Call LIghtning/etc. on 1st round of an encounter. I also love to put them in Heavy Armour for that Darth Vader/Sarevok feel.
Which gets us to Wizards and Sorcerers in Heavy Armour - still can't fully wrap my mind around THAT. Feels wrong somehow :P
Either you go heavy CHR + INT at the cost of other stats (Like CON and DEX), lock yourself to the Headband of Intelligence (Setting you to 17 INT which means only a +3 modifier)
I have a feeling the word "or" is lacking after "DEX),".
