The thing I find most annoying with the current SMN playstyle that Egi Assault I & II are both connected to our GCD when pet skills previously were separate from GCD and could be easily interweaved into your cycles when having the pet in Obey. Where as now it just feel like a mess.
Bare in mind this is coming from someone pre ShB was pet swapping between Garuda and Ifrit just so they could use Contagion and Radiant Shield in the same fight.