I always really saw the Demi's as just the natural evolution of the egi's and wondered why the Dev's shoehorned them both into the same rotation. I always thought the eventual change would be to just make the egi's something you summoned every minute or so from pre level 60 or 50 in a set egi-rotation, and those would be upgraded into demi's in a set demi rotation. It's funny because exactly what happened to the Rook Auto-turret with MCH, they ditch it for the superior Queen at level 80. And it's like that on many other classes, we ditch clunky animations and upgrade to other more powerful spells on other jobs as they go up in level, yet with SMN, here we are trying to cram 4 separate expansions worth of gameplay into one job. Egi's are a relic of the past. Let them be something we only really have to deal with level 50 and below if they absolutely MUST still be tied to us, and then we grow up to the big girl summoners we all want to be.