Are there any fantasy authors bringing soft magic systems back? I am actually not a huge fan of hard magic systems where everything follows strict and well-known rules. (It's one of the many reasons I can't get into Sanderson.) It literally takes the magic out of magic for me.
I think Steven Erikson did this well in Malazan Book of the Fallen: magic-users themselves don't know everything about how magic works, and disparate cultures and peoples have very different frameworks for categorising and understanding it. The magic feels weird and mysterious and beyond human comprehension, like the magic-users are paddling at the edges of a vast sea, trying to make sense of what little they can explore.
ETA: Just to be clear I've been a voracious fantasy reader for thirty years so I have heard of all the big names, I'm asking about new authors! Or more obscure ones!