What kind of character uses reactions a lot? Which 1st level feat would you take instead of Magic Initiate?
Magic initiate is one of the better level 1 feats, but not because of blade ward. If I wanted durability, Lightly Armored and Tough both are usually going to be superior choices.
With Magic Initiate you can get a spellcaster using stuff that they normally couldn't use. A spellcasting cleric (rather than a battle cleric) or a bard could get a much better attack cantrip instead, or a clever player could load up on all the good multipurpose cantrips. Or a Ranger can use a much better quarterstaff than normal. Or who knows what else.
This is assuming they keep the UA version of Magic initiate that let you choose the casting stat. It is possible that died with everyone getting there own spell list again. We don’t know what they are going to do with it moving forward.
Given the Tasha's spell-granting feats, the species spells in the MotM, and the species spells in the UA, and the spell granting background feats in the Giants book and the Strixhaven book and the Dragonlance book - which are all consistent with the "choose your casting stat & use your spellslots to cast the spell" paradigm - I find it extremely unlikely that they will revert to the 2014 Magic Initiate.
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Given the Tasha's spell-granting feats, the species spells in the MotM, and the species spells in the UA, and the spell granting background feats in the Giants book and the Strixhaven book and the Dragonlance book - which are all consistent with the "choose your casting stat & use your spellslots to cast the spell" paradigm - I find it extremely unlikely that they will revert to the 2014 Magic Initiate.