Throwing the tome: 4.2 Summoner Feedback

[Karshan]

Even though you're still one of the most reliably high-parsing jobs in the game atop providing indirect DPS and being capable of combat-rezzes, generally suffer the least from downtime, and have mobility second only to the ranged jobs?

Some of your systems may be clunky, and the gameplay won't be universally appealing, but you're far from weak...

He never claimed so, on the very contrary he said it was absolutely not a number discussion, it's a gameplay mechanics one.
A lot of people also misunderstood his statement about dots. He knows they're 20% of our damage, when he says they don't do anything he means that except fester and bane (lol) nothing interacts with it.
Which is not entirely true (ruination) but maybe now people understand more.

All he says about pets is quite right as well.

That was my fear when they buffed SMN : that people say "it's buffed, stop complaining" when really it is not the concern for some of us ; the grievance is that it doesn't feel instinctive or nice to play anymore, with all those containments between rouse, AF, DWT, Baha. It is clunky, and I maintain that statement "emotion from the expansion free" after 6 months of trying it out on various fights.

The fact players work around the clunkiness to make great parses doesn't say "it's not clunky" it only says "we do well despite that".