New summoner is unacceptable

[aveyond-dreams]

It's called black mage, which is the class you're playing.
Rydia is a Black Mage with Summoner tacked onto it.
What about Eiko and Garnet? They were Summoners, like the race Summoner who also knew White Magic.
Yuna, despite her Sphere grid letting us have her not be a White Mage.

Your argument regarding Summoner is just flat out invalid.

For once XIV did something that did not involve either White or Black Magic but opted for Green instead.
Green Mage actually focuses on both positive and negative, including poisons and making enemies more vulnerable to for example Fire.

And FFXIV's Green Mage managed to fail in such spectacular fashion that it received a rework every expansion until it finally became an actual Summoner. This concept may have been unique but it certainly was not well received, with the past 8 years full of complaints how FFXIV's Summoner did not feel like one at all and how some regarded it as the worst version of the class in the series. Up until now anyway.

Summoner with black magic-like trance spells in between so far seems to be working pretty great compared to convoluted dot juggling and pets that weren't doing what I told them to do.