[New Egis] Are we ever gonna get new ones?

[Khalithar]

First, the answer is no, we probably won't because the HW story straight out says
SPOILER

the smn doesn't have enough aether in their bodies to summon anymore egis, period.

However I did want to address this:

What would other pets bring to the table that you don't already have?

Off the top of my head:

A "basic" aoe focused pet you can leave on sic for add fights or trash. (Leviathan?)

An "advanced" aoe focused pet that you need to put on Obey to maximize. (Ramuh?)

A new solo pet that generates less threat and has less survivability than Titan egi but more damage to compensate. (Ravana?)

A CC focused pet for PVP. (Shiva?)

A solo pet that can heal the Smn only but again, only for solo and wouldn't have near the potency of Eos or Selene. But something more useful for solo duties/solo FATEs since the summoner does the majority of the damage anyway. (Moggle mog? Sephirot? Sophia? New primal?

[Dyvid]

First, the answer is no, we probably won't because the HW story straight out says
SPOILER

the smn doesn't have enough aether in their bodies to summon anymore egis, period.

First I want to mention this, don't use lore as a straw man excuse for game play design. That's not how it works.

Sadly we are still talking about the same issue we were discussing 3 years ago.... We won't get new Egi's because the current pet design is fundamentally flawed. The game is designed around three methods of DPS; single target, AoE, and DoT. CC in this game is strictly for PvP and tanking pet is for soloing unless they make changes. The player base falls into two different categories in pet job design; DoT and Nuker.

4.0 should add a new pet job, Ranger, that works for the player base that wants a nuker with pets. Then they should focus SMN design on DoT and pets design.

[Masekase_Hurricane]

First, the answer is no, we probably won't because the HW story straight out says
SPOILER

the smn doesn't have enough aether in their bodies to summon anymore egis, period.

See that's just a cop-out, at anytime SE could just add another quest into the storyline saying "Summoners have found a way to harness/consume more aether" Maybe they find a safe way to enter the aether stream.

How would summoning Ifrit to perform "Fire" be any different than BLM casting "Fire"?

Well you are looking at it without using imagination it wouldn't cast basic fire it would be something like inferno leaving a burn dot, garuda casting tornado flipping the monster in the air briefly stunning the mob, titan causing an earthquake and inflicting slow and carby doing light based damage and leaving the party with regen.