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While I like how sorcerers share spell-lists with different spellcasters depending on their bloodline, it's hard to see them as powerful or unique compared to the other spellcasters when they have fewer class feats than the rest as well as non-existent proficiencies. In the society playtest, my angelic sorcerer's spontaneous versatility meant almost nothing compared to the cleric's armor, weapons, channeling, and selective energy.
So here's my idea: sorcerer - the class that empowers you with magic based on your blood and ancestry - should let you select class feats using their ancestry feats - those things you get that strengthen your ties to your ancestry. We have both a class and a type of feat that revolve around your lineage; why not directly link them?
Thematically, doing so could be embracing your magical bloodline instead of your direct parentage, like a human draconic sorcerer inheriting the ability to cast extra cantrips that their dragon forebearer used. Or maybe it's your bloodline overpowering your normal racial traits, like a demonic gnome's ancestor enhancing their spells to cause even more damage every time they concentrate on them.
Mechanically, the feat could be limited to half-level like the advanced multiclass feats. Maybe some sorcerer feats could have a trait like "bloodline" that this option is restricted to. Whatever the case, this would be a flavorful way to strengthen the class's options and versatility.
You basically want the natural ambition feat for every sorcerer. If the sorcerer is in need of more class feats then they should just get more and not have some weird workaround with ancestry feats.
I personally think all casters are kinda screwed because multiclassing is bought with class feats and having so few basically restricts casters from properly multiclassing but I also think your idea is not a solution for that.