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So back when Advanced Class Guide first came out, one keen-eyed reader noticed that the bloodrager, while similar to the paladin and ranger in terms of when it acquired spells, lacked the line about not having a caster level until it hit 4th level, at which time its CL would be its level - 3.
The devs responded to this saying this was somewhat intentional, and that they were toying/experimenting with the idea of removing this caveat for the paladin and ranger, and the bloodrager was the test. Fast forward to the release of Occult Adventures, and the new medium class has the same spell progression and also lacks this reduced-caster-level rule.
Now that 2nd edition is on the horizon, whatever became of this? I like to have some semblance of uniformity in my games, and in the event that there's no official ruling (or even semi-official, like if a dev wanted to weigh in with their personal opinion), I want to know if I can feel confident in houseruling my rangers and paladins to have higher caster levels now.
if i recall correctly, the respond i read was not that it was to see how it work so they can use it for rangers\paladin. it was that the bloodrager spell list used spells that were more invested in caster level and coudln't take the -3 to stay ralevent at the level they are gained(like burning hands for example using the only spell they get per day at level 4, beside int bonus, for 1d4 damage was not worth it). while the paladin and ranger spel llist had less effect if the caster level didn't go all the way to the character level, the bloodraer list conssit of a lot of damage dealing spells.and like the other two had very littile spells per day to begin with. taking -3 to caster level for a lot of these spells would have made them not worth it to begin with and remove the uniqeness of a class with small amount of spell casting with full bab. players could get something close to that by simple multi casting.
i think this is also why the fighter archtype that give wizard spells has the same caster level per class level going for it.