Why are summoners so neglected?

[NolLacnala]

But any wholesale changes to its functionality is going to have the entire SMN community up in arms. It's literally that popular as is after the Heavensward changes.

It tells me the direction they moved in was the right one with Heavensward, and that was the thing people wanted out of the job. In other words, they made the right decision moving away from Pets.

False Cause circle logic. They made the class PLAYABLE and FUNCTIONAL, especially in a raid environment, allowing it to be competitive. This in turn increased the number of people playing it.

Edit: I felt I should give you a history run down since you started playing recently. Summoner suffered from a very long time period where its issues kept it out of end game content and made it questionable at best for most others.