Promoting Subclasses to a class

[draconis365]

First off, I'm a huge fan on the work on this repository.. nothing short of amazing to someone who's trying to balance work, life, family, and D&D. I'm debating on starting a project for FC5 and wanted to know if anyone has experimented with this in the past... I'm debating on promoting certain subclasses to their own class. For example, a Hexblade Warlock would be it's own class to reduce the number of autolevel options to select from as a player progresses... I'm currently DMing for my kids, levering FC5, and thought this could help simplify the process for them. Has anyone given some thought to pros, cons, etc? The one challenge I ran into was the need to also update the spell compendium.