Now I know there’s is absolutely no chance of this idea ever coming to pass but I thought I would share it with everyone any ways.
So I thought instead of having pets we have something like a spiritual attunement (to an animal) and we can choose 2 similar to how we have 2 pets and also similarly only one can be active. So F4 would swap attunement and F1, F2 and F3 would be skills based on that attunement. Now for the beast masters there would be 4 news utilities added to replace the pet shouts, these would summon pets based on your attunement and perhaps do some other cool stuff.
That’s basically it, and kind of rips off elementalist and norn ideas but meh. I only came up with this cause I was thinking about how I don’t think some mechanics should be in the game (like stealth, it doesn’t really bring much to the table other than frustration) and relying on AI can be a pain but it can also be fun so I thought it just needed toning down to something that wasn’t a necessity.