Optional rules aren't bad.Great. Let's get rid of all optional rules to avoid abuse. RAW or Die.
Hmmm... Maybe that's the beauty of the VTT...
But when you mess up one of the big rules or a larger set of references, you can't fix those errors without a reset. Because changing those rules fundamentally is creating a new edition.
Wildshape is messed up because WOTC designed beasts wrong and used the CR system for something it was not designed to do.
Fixing Wildshape would be should a big change it would be a new edition. Because you'd have to rewrite every beast under CR 7. And that's just druid.