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Looking over multiple issues I've seen I wonder if it would not be better to simply put some meat on the Ancestries rather than have them be bare bones and have to "grow" into them, and replace all instances of Ancestry Feats with General Feats so that's it's back to 1st Editions advancement of one every odd level and offer a single Heritage Feat at 1st level for something really neat.
Then also add Combat feats under General, rather than restrict them to Classes so that Classes aren't pigeonholed to certain weapons and armor and/or add Combat abilities to certain Proficiency Ranks for weapons and armor similar to how Skills work (As discussed here). That way Class Feats could consist of things that are actually evocative of the Class, rather than giving access to weapon styles or use.
Going off the Barbarian for example,
1 Ancestry feat, barbarian feat
2 Barbarian feat, skill feat
3 general feat, skill increase
4 Barbarian feat, skill feat
5 ancestry feat, skill increase
6 Barbarian feat, skill feat
7 General feat, skill increase
8 Barbarian feat, skill feat
9 Ancestry feat, skill increase
10 barbarian feat, skill feat
11 General feat, skill increase
12 Barbarian feat, skill feat
13 Ancestry feat, skill increase
14 Barbarian feat, skill feat
15 general feat, skill increase
16 Barbarian feat, skill feat
17 Ancestry feat, skill increase
18 Barbarian feat, skill feat
19 general feat, skill increase
20 barbarian feat, skill feat
would turn into:
1 barbarian feat, general feat, heritage feat
2 barbarian feat, skill feat
3 general feat, skill increase
4 barbarian feat, skill feat
5 general feat, skill increase
6 barbarian feat, skill feat
7 general feat, skill increase
8 barbarian feat, skill feat
9 general feat, skill increase
10 barbarian feat, skill feat
11 general feat, skill increase
12 barbarian feat, skill feat
13 general feat, skill increase
14 barbarian feat, skill feat
15 general feat, skill increase
16 barbarian feat, skill feat
17 general feat, skill increase
18 barbarian feat, skill feat
19 general feat, skill increase
20 barbarian feat, skill feat
Agree.
Ancestry feats are so bad that you can give all 5 of them at 1st level inside your heritage feat.