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The Universalist ability to mimic a metamagic feat X/day without increasing the spell level causes some very disturbing issues, especially at mid-levels of play.
For example, in my playtest a Level 11 Wizard can freely use 1/day a maximized disintegrate spell. Not a huge issue? Well, normally this wouldn't be available until 17th level. So a non-optimized wizard blasting monsters with a paltry +10 Fortitude save generally means they take 132 points of damage. It especially is bad for non-Con creatures. Encounters end pretty quickly and it encourages resting to recover this awesome ability.
At 19th level you're looking at 3/day maximized anything.
I haven't seen it applied to other metamagic, but I am curious: do other people find the elimination of spell level limits creating wonking blips?
I do. I really hope that the real meaning of Metamagic Mastery is that a Wizard can apply one of his Metamagic feats "on the fly" but that he is still subjected to the rule that he cannot use the power to add metamagic feats that would make the spell’s effective level higher than the highest level of spell that he can cast normally.
Either this, or we would have a new "Divine Metamagic Syndrome" ready to strike us in all his brokeness...