So about Summoner...

[Dualgunner]

You'll have to forgive me for looking at the data before me, and making observations based on it. The way you're putting it, Red Mage isn't even a monster for progression: it's a monster for the first half, and then Summoner takes over and stays the mainstay for the rest of it. You'll also have to accept you're not going to change my opinions: raise spam is overrated, and having a DPS (not a support, not a healer, a damage-per-second) job balanced around its ability to scrape people up off the ground will never feel good.

That said, I have ceded that blatant potency gains aren't necessary either. An ability like MCH's "Cooldown" would work wonders in opening the job up for optimization alone.

EDIT:

Imagine my shock, SMN is the strongest job in Ultimate again.