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According to my limited experience of playing as a psychic, the class has two main problems:
1. Limited choices:
Unlike other casters with more spell slots, psychic only has 2 slots each spell level, which means the spell choice is highly limited, especially in lower level campaigns. This would lead to the second problem, that because of this limited casting ability, psychic actually relies on focus spells/cantrips to work properly.
2. No outstanding foucs cantrip ability:
To me, IW nerf is not that much of a problem since I didn't have many chances to use it because I prefer to stay at the backline of the team. However, the problem is that for every conscious mind, there are some cantrips or spells that are not quite usable. In this case, sometimes the optimal choice in a difficult battle becomes repeating the same one cantrip, which leads to a new problem, that psychic no longer outstands other focus spell casters in this case, and psychic would run out of focus points really quickly, even before the unleash psyche ends. I know there's a class feat that allows you to regain a focus point, but that is far less than enough, and that feat also makes Emotional Acceptance stand out from all the subconscious minds.
As a result, I think a rework on conscious minds adding more general solutions would allow players to customise their characters better, and adding more subconscious minds along with a rework on the current ones are also necessary.