Innovative slider policy is terrible now.

[Darkrenown]

I agree. Howver, I like the changes made to advisors in 1.21. The problem is, now you've got no way to get more missionaries, etc. other than sliders (or changing religion for Europeans). I

There's also the divine supremacy NI.

What might be interesting is if being narrowminded increased the chance of the colonial uprising events to simulate that while more people are leaving your country (giving more colonists) they don't like you very much so are more likely to break off. Also, possibly some events could be added to make their colonies convert religion.

 

[Darkrenown]

Fair enough. But who wants to waste a NI slot on a piddly +1 missionary/merchant/diplomat/etc. when there's so many other tasty NI's to snag?

Well, they also do other things, and you can always change it later.

It's bad enough that, to avoid tech regression, I have to take QftNW or Colonial Adventures once my empire gets to a certain size (especially annoying if I am deliberately avoiding colonization in a particular game by focusing on stomping my neighbors .)

IMO it's not worth taking one of those NIs just to avoid that event. The tech penalty is only for a certain time, just choose a school you're not focusing on at the time.