Smn is so broken in this game. I dunno how anyone enjoys it. Smn was my favorite class in ffxi do to how fun it was to summon many different primals and they all had their own uses. Its unbearable playing it in ffxiv. May as well be a scholar without heals and a few replacement abilities/spells. I honestly feel sorry for the ppl playing smn in this game, dunno what you missed in ffxi.
Its gonna take a massive overhaul of smn to get me interested in it. Egis is only a start...