I remember during storm blood I would hear yoshi p talking about a "pure healer" fantasy a lot in live letters, I would just shrug and say well that's white mage and they can do whatever they want i guess. But for me, my scholar was a combat medic, and my dot's were a big part of that. Eos was never important to me in that fantasy i could leave her on auto and know she would generally be helpful at least, a good assistant, but keeping my people alive was my job. That all ended in shadow bringers, there was such a disconnect I just couldn't enjoy my main job anymore. All my dot's gone, a bumbling fairy of an assistant who wont take initiative and drags her wings when given an order, then seraph... where the hell did you even come from and why are you in my toolkit?
Now i dont think its unfair to have to take more direct control of the fairies but its current form I'd frankly lose the passive embrace to just let them pop in and out of existence as part of a spell animation and work as i need them to. But these are the primary reasons i fell out of love with scholar.