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The spells in particular are a change I dislike for apolitical reasons: Nearly all conjuration spells that previously created monsters are replaced with either spirit shroud style passive buffs (conjure minor elementals, which is ironically extremely OP and can outclass fighters in damage per turn) or totally-not-moonbeam AoE damage that moves (most of the others, they also made a mistake by making conjure celestial able to heal the same player each turn in the final player's handbook, in previews of the handbook it could only heal each creature once per casting of the spell but now it's 4d12 healing per round with no action required, while still being able to deal the spell's damage on the same turn. In comparison, the allegedly overpowered conjure celestial's best possible healing is from a Living Portent, which only has 2 uses of Cure Wounds, 1 use of Greater Restoration (5th level spell btw, so casting it just for this would not be worth it) and an action to temporarily increase a creature's HP and max HP by 1d8+3, which only counts as healing by the same standards that Temporary Hit Points are healing. They probably made it that powerful to keep it level 7, as they had promised to keep only the levels and names of spells, while completely changing the effects). The others, which have summon in their name rather than conjure, specify that they definitely do not summon an actual monster but instead call upon a spirit which momentarily takes the form of a modular and level-scaled generic monster of the chosen type until the spell ends, rubbing in the player's face the fact that they are closer to a trading card game adaptation character than an actual summoner of monsters. This also means that you can't use most non-combat benefits of conjuring a creature, such as having it cast utility spells, move objects, or anything roleplay-related. The only reason that the new conjure spells were added was so that WOTC could keep their promise of being totally compatible with 5E while still getting rid of those unbalanced, cheesy, adventurer's league unfriendly, and railroad-diverting spells which affected the action economy. Granted, Pixies are extremely OP as an option for Conjure Woodland Beings due to effectively giving the player 8 free uses of polymorph for a 4th level spell slot, but that's due to them having a CR of 1/4, not that the ability to conjure monsters without a is inherently bad game design, an argument which redditors have been making. Notice that even single-creature summon spells have been changed in this way, so it can't just be justified by turns taking longer, as some of the new effects also don't use up actions:

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You'd think TTRPGers would enjoy reading walls of text since that's what their games books are