Am I missing something regarding how archetypes are written?

[Anguish]

I'm curious if there's logic that I'm not seeing.

Every multiclass archetype has a feat at 4th such as Basic Concoction which says "you gain a 1st or 2nd-level <insert clas here> feat". Then they all also have a feat at 6th such as Advanced Concoction which says "you gain a <insert class here> feat up to half your level and you can take this more than once".

So... my curiosity comes from wondering why there are two separate feats here.

If you literally excised the Basic versions from the book, and moved the Advanced versions to 4th, as far as I can tell absolutely nothing would change.

What am I missing? This isn't important and it isn't a big deal, but Paizo usually does things for a reason and I just don't see the purpose behind consuming word-count this way.

[3Doubloons]

Advanced Concoction (et al.) have Basic Concoction (also et al.) as a prerequisite, so you need to take at least one first or second level feat, no matter how long you wait before you take the Advanced feat feat

[Zwordsman]

Its so you have to invest enough in the dedication before getting higher level stuf

I personally, still think it should be "requires 1 other archetype feat, other than dedication" for advanced concotion.
That way a rogue player could take sneak attack for the basic one.
or a barabrian could take the hp one for a basic one.
etc.
So you still have to invest in the multiclass itself, but you could pick up fluff or class defining features intead of the lv 1 or 2 feats which really don't often feel like the class itself to me

[Anguish]

3Doubloons wrote:

Advanced Concoction (et al.) have Basic Concoction (also et al.) as a prerequisite, so you need to take at least one first or second level feat, no matter how long you wait before you take the Advanced feat feat

That'll do it. Subtle, but I see it.

Thank you.