Hopefully in heavensward they will make the chocobo AI into a more in-depth system, something like the Gambit systems in FFXII or even just using macros, that give pre-determined behaviors under certain conditions. When they do release solo-able dungeons I'm sure most people will go in with their chocobos (unless SE finds a way to mess that up) and it would be great to have a chocobo that can do more than just sit in aoes and die.

Also since chocoboc take up a party slot they don't share the same attributes or actions as pets so its basically like a having an afk scholar /follow you in satsaha. Useless and annoying.