Shadow Conjuration

[The Best Thing About Me]

A few suggestions to make it feel a little better to use Shadow Conjuration's shadows, over something like Glass Doppelganger / Phantoms+Mislead. These are admittedly self-serving suggestions, as I'm using the spells regardless, but still.

-If you make a clone of yourself with Shadow Conjuration with the spell and not an item, let it carry over your full con score like Mislead/Phantoms does. It's often only a small difference at the lowest tier, but it's awkward to have a "greater" clone have less HP than "lesser" ones.
-I don't know if this can be changed, but the Summon Shadow subspell is ground targeted like a summoning spell, and creates a clone of whichever PC is closest to the cast location. This makes it very easy to make a clone of the wrong person.
-Add the same harmless darkness VFX that Phantoms has, on the area where you create the shadow. It'll look cool.
-A general power boost from GSF Illusion. The modifiers to the spell depending on your spell school or GSF are very cool and encourage neat builds, and illusion's existing perk is actually very useful and now my favorite part of the spell, but I'd love for it to also have a second, smaller and less niche boost for illusionists as well, since it feels odd that Transmuters get the all around best clones out of it. Currently, you can only have one shadow clone active, and it unsummons any summons and gets a fraction of base stats and no immunities, yet you can have as many Glass Doppelgangers at the same time as spell slots allow, alongside summons. I'd love if Shadow Clones could have a niche of being nearly as good as Glass statistically with GSF Illusion, when made of yourself, while still being weaker if made of other PCs and lacking Glass' tankiness... but even as is, just being allowed to have multiple, or a single clone with a very long duration as if fighting alongside your literal shadow, would be rad.

That said, I do recognize that the Shadow Conjuration spells also bring a degree of flexibility beyond the clone creation. But the 4th level spell version definitely feels lacking since the other spells it provides don't have the punch of GSC's unbreachable globe or Shades' stoneskin and explosions. And even GSC has a hard time comparing to Glass Doppelganger's ability to create multiple fully statted, stronger versions of your PC melee crusher friend, making it difficult to take GSC over Glass as an illusionist.