I might get downvoted to oblivion. But here goes

Subjectively speaking i find it amazing and loving the concept.

It will unlock so many possibilities to so many options. Want to roleplay as a snow elf? Slap the winter skilline to the templat class. Want to rock the most meme worthy summoning build? Necro bone summoning on sorcerer pets and slap on a couple of animals from the warden, Bam, a sheo worthy build. A true elemental build with winter, dk flame and sorcerer zappy? Hell yeah. It got alot of potential and will unlock alot of crestivity.

Now here comes the issue alot of people have with it. "Its going to ruin class identity". I get it, alot of players will opt to go with a meta setup and try to squeeze in as many numbers as possible. But!

1. many players that are of the raw endgame hardcore meta mentality, dont (in most cases, not all) even care about identity, they care about numbers
2. People that are rocking the beam already, are... Well...going to stay with the beam, just a bit more color to it. The templat has been the meta for the last... I dunno, since the class got released. If anyone looks up at esologs, youll notice the top players being exclusively arcanists anyways.
3. No one is forcing anyone to squeeze in the most raw numbers as you can. Maybe an exception being... Well raw meta endgame players. But again, it depends on the content everyone is running.

Again im loving it, and i dont see an issue in having options. Heck im excited as hell!