I'm somewhat puzzled by the removal of Scion in PoE2

The reason stated by GGG was that they were having difficulty finding an identity for the Scion.

Isn't that the whole point? I thought the Scion/Ascendant's identity was that it's a wonderchild that could become like any of the other classes.

How you achieve that is another question, and arguably the current Ascendant may not be the best way to do it. But I really like the concept of mixing and matching characteristics of other classes, and I think the Scion could absolutely be saved if we just leaned into that aspect a little more.

A couple off-the-cuff ideas:

- Allow speccing into more than 2 classes' ascendancies

- More flexibility in picking features. E.g. instead of just taking a little bit of everything from an ascendancy, have a little mini-tree for each ascendancy and let players decide how much of each to take

- Allow reallocating ascendancies for free, like with Pantheon nodes

- Extra anointment slots

- A free cluster jewel node inside your ascendancy tree