Quote Originally Posted by aveyond-dreams View Post
If you were heavily invested in a poison mage with summons tacked on then Summoner was never the class for you to begin with. 8 years of history in this game where many regarded it as the worst Summoner in all of Final Fantasy is nothing to 20+ years of games where Summoners have a focus on Summon Magic.
Doesn't really matter what "summoner" means to you though, if it wasn't a real summoner or if you find it too similar to other class in another game, it was a class that a lot of people enjoyed and stayed in the game for years and people are allowed to have opinions regarding it. Dancer is nothing like the dancer from FFT and that doesn't mean that it doesn't belong in this game and people aren't allowed to like it.

Besides, this argument isn't very strong imo since again a lot of the "summoner" crisis was mostly aesthetic. They could fix the aesthetic part without compromising other forms of gameplay or even proposing a gameplay that might feel more on the middle ground while keeping whatever identity they wanted for summoner through aesthetic.