Funny, I feel the exact opposite. The bard as a strong support character is dead in 5e. Instead of giving everyone +1 here’s an additional d6, who knows what they did to give me that d6, but here it is.
And their spells known is more like a sorcerer than a wizard. Limited in the spells they can learn.
I dunno, it feels nerfed and kinda useless to me. We have a bard in the party, and besides being a Kenku he doesn’t really do much. Granted most of them aren’t beyond “I hit the monster” anyway.