Why did they make SMN harder to play?

[Galvuu]

I said in another thread that, on a deep level, SMN and BLM are very similar if you want to execute them well.
What I meant was something you highlighted- you need, on both jobs, to have an extremely precise planning of your cds to do well in a fight. We're talking down to two seconds or so here. Further, both jobs might need to adjust their rotation in advance due to upcoming mechanics.
SMN has the added issue that a critical failure is much more punishing (death), where BLM can still somewhat recover within 15ish seconds (although that's painful too).

Pets are, as you said, a clunky, unresponsive mess (3.4 Garuda flashbacks for me).
Why? I think they just don't understand casters very well.
I know this is a painful answer- painfully useless too- but given this whole BLM and SMN fiasco in 4.0... I just think these jobs are a bit too complex when you min/max them for the dev team to see these things coming :/
I'm sure they dummy parsed this and went "great!" and failed to predict what issues would be hampering all this in an actual raid.
(Heck, they probably didn't even parse BLM, because they come out the same).

[Claviusnex]

What I meant was something you highlighted- you need, on both jobs, to have an extremely precise planning of your cds to do well in a fight. We're talking down to two seconds or so here. Further, both jobs might need to adjust their rotation in advance due to upcoming mechanics.

Good point. Planning can work out well with a static where you can begin to anticipate how the other members will react on certain fights. However it becomes nigh on impossible when you PUG as you have no idea how the other players will react as events unfold.

[Galvuu]

Good point. Planning can work out well with a static where you can begin to anticipate how the other members will react on certain fights. However it becomes nigh on impossible when you PUG as you have no idea how the other players will react as events unfold.

Planning for pugs = plan for worst case scenario. I've grown rather adept at that xD
I even plan my Lucid/Diversion usage to avoid getting tankbuster'd in the face
(Then a healer dies and we wipe, but hey, I ain't tanking that).