Is this SMN yet ? Is this a summoner from Final Fantasy series? Physicks, for what ?

[Raikai]

Umm summoning ghosts that did a big magick blast and then disappeared was literally what a FF summoner was. up until FFX/XI, if we were going to be fair about it. What summoner never had however, were egi's, that look kind of awful(matchsticks, chicken nuggets, and infernal abomination chicken), Personally T'd like to see more of the Phoenix like stuff, with less of the convoluted 2 minute wind up, and just more or even less of rotation of the forms. Lets be real about current summoner, its a whack-a-mole button masher. Outside of that, im fine with even longer durations with bahamut/phoenix out, or more summon phases like them in the beginning wind up. Egi's though? Get rid of em.

The issue is that SMN is kind of in an awkward thematic position in the spectrum, where Egis are not actual pets, but they also didn't go all the way on removing them and centering SMN around just cycles of different Demis.

In 6.0 I think they just push one way or another. I personally believe that they won't really bother fixing the whole way pets work in XIV due to the convoluted inherited sphagetti code, leading to:
a) A rework by removing Egis and making SMN cycle through different trances and different Demi summons. I could see something like Ramuh > Shiva > Phoenix > Bahamut. And for extra flavor, the LB3 being Leviathan or the Warring Triad. The old Egis and Carbuncles could all still remain as summoning spells to add them just as cosmetic companions.
b) Beastmaster becoming a regular job with pets would not work, just like SMN didn't. Instead they would be introduced as a Limited Job at the 90 level cap with the whole beast combat being a category of its own. Basically a pokemon game within. As its level capped maybe you would be able to use it for solo open world play having the option of using your pet instead of a chocobo.