Rydia vs. Dagger, Eiko, Yuna, FFXI summoners as most people played them, and (Luna?)

Why anyone would play a summoner to be able to cast debuffs is beyond me. I don't even remember the ailment spells from 9 because in that game they weren't very useful. I feel as if though someone looked at the Affliction warlocks from WoW and copied that into FFXIV with this pseudosummoner who's only 2 real summons are carbuncle and Demi Bahamut, with the rest of the focus being on debuffs. Even the warlocks had more pets than FFXIV summoners, with complete models. This concept might have worked ok with scholar since their whole storyline is about diseases, but it feels completely out of place with summoner. The egis look ridiculous and feel more like calling the elemental spirits from FFXI. Now, if we were able to get the Demi versions of the rest of the summons I might give summoner in FFXIV another chance, but having only 2 doesn't make me feel like a real summoner.