More Egi's Or Demi-Primals?

[Neela]

So for me it seems there's already things in place to give Phoenix to SMN without bringing him back into the main story anyways.

I'm with you at the lore side... I don't think it would be hard to bring him back in a good way... I'm more wondering how his effects should look like... actually phoenix-summons iconic ability in FF history is Reraise... now it will be really tough for balancing to integrate a grp-reraise ability you can use every 2 minutes... although I would personally like to trade a phoenix-summon with the common raise-skill, leaving RDM the only caster with a normal raise, i doubt that we will see something like that in the near future.