Summoner feels really, really dumbed down now

[Riusvell]

"The most faithful rendition of Summoner" is such a hollow argument, you're telling me that all the lore of past games matter nothing for the job identity?

The summons were our companions who we've fought to gain their respect to be summoned in the first place, or even prayed to in the case of one of the games that people love to call back to. Even in that particular game we didn't just summon them as a spell, we commanded them to attack. They fought with us. We have the horn to communicate with them yet here we are just throwing them out like a Black Mage flings their spells, and you're telling me that "this is faithful to the older FF's". If you actually cared a smidge about the job's identity, none of these claims would even be made!

"But the older Summoners didn't have DoTs!"
Rydia learns Poison. That is a DoT, a status ailment in past Final Fantasies.

"But X-"
If you're going to bring up Yuna, she can also learn poison. I legitimately do not understand the argument of not fitting the job identity or anything if older characters that have been hailed as the holy grail of summoning do nothing like you claim them to do. They still had to gain the respect, they still saw them as allies and they still interacted with them outside of the battle gameplay we saw. Even in FF6 it is proven they're sentient beings. Yet the gameplay uses them as a spell, which is very likely due to engine limitations. But just because it is older gameplay, doesn't mean we have to face this in XIV. X, XII and XIII actually had us interact with the summons and that's something I love as someone who legitimately adores the job in the franchise.

To have it be turned into a hollow shadow while my Carbuncle is spacing out, is just a disrespect to everything that came before it.

Seriously, this disgrace feels NOTHING like a Summoner.