Please don't delete tank carbuncle from SMN

[ArcaneCarbuncle]

What I don't understand is how people can say Summoner is not a Pet Job anymore.
The Pets may not be targetable anymore, but they are still their own entities on the battlefield, and with the changes you are now not only encouraged to manually manage their skills (rather then leaving them to their own devices), you are now rewarded for switching them based on the situation you're in. If anything ShB's Summoner feels like more of a pet Job than its ever been.

As for soloability, while I can understand the concerns, I feel it is important to see things in context. Outside of Summoner, no other Job had a Pocket Tank, and still every Job managed to do their solo duties just fine (and that includes Summoner itself seeing as Titan-Egi was just plain bad at keeping aggro).
Titan-Egis shift from Tank Pet to "Solo"-Pet feels like an improvement, honestly, because at least now you get a use out of him through Earthen Armor - lets face it, a 20% Defense Buff with almost perfect uptime is nothing to scoff at.

That said, I wouldn't be angry if they chose to finally have Physick scale of Int rather than keeping it around as a pretty much useless Skill. Though that is more because I believe that as long as there is relevant soloable content in the game (Deep Dungeons/Exploratory Missions) every Jobs should get a halfway decent Selfheal, be it Job-Specific or provided through Role Skills - but thats just me.
Alternatively they also could further strengthen Titan-Egis Identity as Solo-Pet by giving his Egi-Assault I some sort of absorption effect similar to what DRK has on a few of his Skills - Hit the target and heal the Caster, in this case the Summoner - for a set potency.