From my experience I completely disagree. To fully master BLM to the extend that I did, it took me like months whilest Summoner took me two weeks to get good on. The difference between BLM and SMN is that for BLM you need to be a lot more calculative when it comes to fights. You don't have that so much as a Summoner. Summoner is harder than BLM rotation wise, and probably a bit harder overall, but that should not be a reason for SMN to massively outDPS BLM. It should just be balanced regardless of difficulty. It just makes sense that SMN should just do more ST damage than a BLM and a BLM should do more AoE. Utility, well I would give SMN some actual useful utility and an MP tweak. Surely you can't disagree with that?