I wanted to make a class inspired by 1e's kineticist, but I also didn't want to fall into the trap I had seen a couple other kineticist homebrews fall into: being too faithful to the original. The main issue is that there are a number of people out there who disliked burn as a...
Much in the same way that 5e has nothing like the Thaumaturge (except in piecemeal fashion), you'll never really be able to build a Warlock in PF2 because its flavor belongs to the Witch and its mechanics belong to the Kineticist.
You mean to tell me that the ONLY things worth converting to 2E for base rules were the Alchemist class, the Goblin race/ancestry and handuls of spells, feats and monsters? Where are the planar scions as base ancestries? Where are the gunslinger, summoner, kineticist, magus, occultist and...
Also, to be brutally honest, after the Kineticist, Vigilante, and Shifter, it's really hard for me to trust Paizo as game designers anymore. Especially with all the public input you had on the Kineticist and how underpowered it was well before publishing it. I'm kind of skeptical as to...