Summoner: An action or a dot?

[Roda]

I just want to get a feel about this, would people prefer if they revamped Summoner for 6.0 and remove egis and instead just let them summon the primal for one big attack or is having your summon pet at your side all the time make/break the job for you?

No. Absolutely not.
I am playing this class because I like how it plays.
I like dot management, I like pet management, and I love carbuncles to death. I like the class fantasy of fighting alongside my summoned pet instead of having the pet do all the work for me while I just point menacingly at a target.

The only work on SMN that I feel needs to be done is putting resources back into summoning demi summons instead of having so many separate systems not working with eachother and having the actual summoning part of your kit be on timers as if they were bard songs. (that and egi glamours)

I feel like the egis and carbuncles are the most visible part of summoner's identity. Taking that away and just having big-hit-then-gone summons would just make them black mages with books. That said, the base egis could use some help to make them feel less like filler. (Obligatory comment about egi glamours.)

Or maybe the demis could be diversified. For example, instead of all them going through Bahamut and Phoenix, give base egi a different demi evolution. So Ifrit would go from Bahamut to Zurvan; Garuda could go to Phoenix and Sophia; and Titan could go to Alexander and Sephirot. Spitballing here, but just an idea.

I guess this is an opportunity to paste my summoner fan-redesign that i made in a blood-rage after the 6.0 changes and the discourse surrounding them in an attempt to get these "one big hit and then nothing" and the "but I liked how it was" people to come together on a direction for the class. It's not perfect, and I'd like to put current eggi assaults back into the move list for more pet interaction, but I like the over all design of it