Why are summoners so neglected?

[Lambdafish]

Honestly, I think the best thing they can do for SMN is to stop focusing on the pet as the "summon". Using egi glamour to change the pet is a good idea while keeping the trinity of caster/melee/tank, but the real way to further SMN is to enhance the dreadwyrm trance to include other summons. The way I envision SMN is not as a pet job, but rather as a job that employs something akin to the assist system in dissidia, where a single attack involves a summon appearing, and then disappearing again, and I feel that this could be achieved by changing the way enkindle works and combining it with Dreadwyrm Trance (which could be renamed "Trance form"). This way you could end your combos with Hellfire, Diamond Dust, Judgement Bolt, Tidal Wave, or Megaflare without actually having 6 different pets (hell, add a "mirage" of the primal performing the attack to definately shut SMNs up about their job).