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This is one of the reasons I'm really not happy with DND. I just don't want to play a resource management game. I want to do cool stuff.
There are lots of games that aren't built around resource management and attrition, but unfortunately DND is so popular it sucks all the air out of the room.
Most abilities should be either "per round/turn" or "per encounter".
Abilities that are too powerful for that should either not exist or require significant preparation (enough for the opposition to have a chance to discover and interrupt it).
Abilities that fall in the second category should automatically come with a less powerful variant in the first category.
Maybe as a middle ground some player abilities could use the "roll for recharge" mechanic from powerful monster abilities.
Then you have casters blowing max slot every fight and trivializing them.
Then you're going to have boring spells that do damage akin to cantrips. No one wants homogenization.
I absolutely do want mechanical homogenization. Interesting variants can be handled with flavor without forcing everyone to learn completely new rules for every ability. The existence of generic rule systems (e.g. Savage Worlds) proves I am not alone with that view.
Cool. And that exists in that game. But that's not the core of dnd.
It was my impression that we are at this point discussing (rp)game design in general, not specifically D&D. If your context was D&D specifically, that explains a lot of the disagreement between us.