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I just leave them out.

I'll use them as is if I happen to need them in an adventure or some such singular case.

The Dex bonus is used only for tie-breakers.

I believe you dip the darts in poison before use.

My take would be:

* There are several ways to a magic-user to come about a familiar. One may spontaneously appear and offer it's services. The magic-user might be gifted the familiar by a mentor or someone. They might steal one from another and negotiate a deal. One might appear at a time of difficulty.
* Magic-users are never ever entitled to a familiar. If one chooses to assist the magic-user, it's their own decision and should be considered a privilege.
* Familiars always have their own motivations and agendas. These should range from benevolent to malevolent. The magic-user should never have certain knowledge about their familiar's motivations. (A random table could be constructed for these.)
* Familiars are always intelligent and cunning and can communicate with their magic-user partners in some way.
* The familiar's shape is always physical and real. They appear often as normal animals, cats, toads, dogs, horses, cows, etc. or they can be human or other humanoid, like an old woman, foreign servant, a house elf, or similar. They might be demon-like or something weird best kept hidden. They should always have something off about them.
* If a familiar dies, it's dead, gone. Familiars are valuable assets and partners and should never be used as cannon fodder.
* Familiars come and go as they please, some are nowhere to be seen unless called or summoned with a spell, some won't leave or appear when unwanted.
* Familiar's powers should be unique to the familiar.

I'd make some sort of random table with at least the following columns: appearance, quirk, motivation or agenda, special power or ability, morale.

Where can I check the new spell text? I still only have the rules section of the new artless layout.

Here are some things I found from the rules text by the way:

I think on page 34 you may want to make "The following treasures do count for XP
purposes:" a non-bullet item.

Scholars still reduce lab time 1d4 weeks while alchemists only 1d6 days, even though they're more expensive.

In wrestling, does your strength score apply twice or should you add your base attack bonus instead of the mêlée attack bonus, which already has the str bonus?

Dogs still cost 1 gp in cities.

The DEX mods are used as tiebreakers when using individual initiative as well. It doesn't change the segment the character is acting on.

What's the point of dying taking d10 minutes at -3 hitpoints if even magical healing doesn't work?