Expect? A hybrid. -Shrug- Something with a little more choice in the execution. I mean, yeah, you're not wrong - everything in the game is cosmetic. It's all nothing but numbers, graphics, and words. Pardon me for wanting a thing with slight modifications to what we have now?

I'd love to understand this hostility against people pointing out that the feel is that sword is an afterthought, and could be replaced with regular spells and it would be indistinguishable from a machine-gun blackmage.