What drives a poor reputation for the Rogue class?

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Look, I'm not saying every single martial ability under the sun needs to be a spell. But something like Ancestral Guardian Barbarian saying "you can summon a spirit now! It can look around corners or the other side of a door etc for you and tells you what it sees/hears, and can also advise you on an immediate course of action" simply invoking Clairvoyance/Augury, does save a lot of text.

It's not saving any text. It's just breaking it up into three different locations.

You could easily condense it down to half the size of the three now and make more flavorful than "it's all spiritual now. see it looks different"