It was fun to /pet my fairy or use emotes with her (they could have add some emotes to the fairy like a /highfive it would be cool), now it's over, it was fun to use my sacred soil anywhere, now it's over....
If it is of any help, I think at least we can target them to use emote still. Don't quote me on that, not 100% sure, but I think we can. Also, if they really had to take away our DPS skills, you would have though they could have upped the pet management mechanics of our job to compensate, make it more important, give them more skills or something. Perhaps have like SMN the skill to change them on the fly and use them for different purposes (Perhaps heals/buff or Heals/DPS or something similar). It would have done the job of both filling downtime so the simpler DPS rotation isn't as bad, as we will actually be able to balance it with other things to optimize, while offering a stronger identity as a pet healer to compensate our lost kit as dps. Using Aether for buffs through the fairy may had been good too. I know it would break the balance between WHM and SCH/AST even more, but they could also give WHM more utility in this scenario.

Also on the topic of WHM, they really need some love. We had lost so many skills through expansions, and now we are very slowly playing catching up.

it was fun to use my sacred soil anywhere, now it's over....
I'm not well aware of this. Why cannot we place Sacred Soil anywhere now? What did they changed?

(they could have add some emotes to the fairy like a /highfive it would be cool)
This is a genius idea, even if it may not be possible.