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Interesting topic. Reminiscent of Cooperfauss' Rebel errata. I imagine the biggest barrier here is the emotional response to changing away from "official" cards. It opens up a lot of design space, and my arguments against it would have little to do with design principles and a lot to do with...

Yeah, you also have Condemn and Sword to Plowshares. And Nature's Claim. As Dom mentioned, I know. There's no way I'm running Fiery Justice though.

I'm all for red control, but I don't think the two are mutually exclusive. I have plenty of red aggro while still including (almost) all of the above.

I think you handle it by where you put the strength in your set. If players start off by taking what "looks good" they should be able to weasel their way into a deck. I remember I drafted Modern Masters without really looking at the spoiler beforehand, and just took a bunch of good stuff like...

No, I actually find the aggro decks to be very challenging to build and play correctly and for whatever reason the decks fare well in my hands but others often do poorly when they go for red-based aggro. Utility Land Draft goes a long way to increasing the complexity of playing an aggro deck.

I've been hating on Wildfire since before ripsters even existed. The worst thing about the Portal sets is that it has put the abominable "Wildfire" archetypes into cubers' minds. I don't know where people got the idea that "win if I cast this spell with a Planeswalker on the board" strategies...