That too exposes a problem if it's in relation to booming blade/GFB. You might as well be talking about how rapiers greatswords & longbows need to serve the needs of wizard/sorcerer/druid/cleric better. We've not seen a single effort from wotc to nail down focus items to fit the needs of different caster roles & such yet now because there are a couple poorly designed cantrips occupying the wrong design space we are skipping straight to focus item weapons for non-casters before even starting on them for casters.I feel the solution is to add at will weapon maneuvers for non-casters.
Well nothing. If that statement is true, the solution for "non-casters" needs to be some design space "non-casters" needs to be some design space they have access to not warping "actual-caster" stuff to suit "non-casters"Well usually it's the non-casters who struggle so...
And the ACTUAL mix of martial and magic is precisely what makes those cantrips fun thematically. You're not a real gish if all you do is swing a sword with one hand and sling spell with the other, they're just two different things you can do. Those cantrips merge them into a single action. I dunno what the mechanical solution is, exactly, but they are thematically valid IMO.
You never answered the questions from 104 so it strikes me as odd to once again pivot & throw a dart at "gish". Gish is something achieved through levels not "I took elf and started with GFB". (Sub)class is the proper designspace for gish.