Why are summoners so neglected?

[Mhaeric]

People really aren't though, I think everyone agrees that summoners fundamentally changed after FFIX, which means XI's isn't the "traditional" one

And that's why almost all of the suggestions are along the lines of, "Make Summoner damage more summon based like it was in FFXI and other FF games" and "I'm not a summoner because I don't summon flashy things like in FFXI or other FF games."

You'll also notice that you were the one that made the association to FFXI in the context of my statement on the perception of traditional and true summoners, not me. I haven't used the term "FFXI" at all until this post.