I'd be perfectly fine with permanent pets vanishing and being replaced with Demi-Versions of them. That'd be awesome and more in spirit of what Summoner has been over the course of the Final Fantasy series.

I was excited to hear about the Egi-Glamour system until it ended up being the Carbuncle glamour system as I'm in the minority of vastly disliking Carbuncle as an appearance option. Cute and adorable isn't the aesthetic I want permanently attached to my summoner when I'm invoking the powers of eikons.

I'm honestly hoping they finally separate Scholar and Summoner so each job can focus on itself without being hindered by the other and it's very much felt like that's the direction they've been trying to go for two expansions now. Just ripping the two apart, letting Scholar just be its own job that you unlock at LV30 like anything from Heavensward - with its Faerie companion having its own unique set of abilities and functions for however they want to tackle that and Summoner being the natural progress of the Arcanist and solely focusing on that. I think the job designers would have a much easier time with both without having to tiptoe around each others increasingly lost overlap.

In my humble opinion, the dot mage aspect of Summoner should be tossed before its summons should. Because the moment Summoner loses its summons it needs to be called something else.