None of these improvement requests are power creep requests.
1. Bard songs (other than fascinate, which is an attack balanced against the very long casting lead time): Can we get these switched to instant songs like some of the ones in Fatesinger? The long casting time of inspire courage, inspire excellence, et al doesn't play nice with the current metagame.
2. Hero's feast spell: Can we get this spell to just work like every other buff spell? Is there a balance reason for having it not take effect immediately? Again, it just doesn't play nice with the current metagame.
3. Fire storm spell: Any reason we can't get this spell to be normally targetable like every other AE spell in the game?