It really is. So many arguments that I see in SMN threads trying to give feedback on the job are "But it's a real summoner now! You summon things! Old Job bad, new job good!" And it's exceedingly frustrating.

Yes, the old poison mage aesthetic was not good for Summoner imo. I vastly prefer the new aesthetic. But having a good new aesthetic does not mean that the job's GAMEPLAY is good. SMN right now is a weaker caster (albeit consistent) that requires little to no nuance in anything we do, I was able to boil the job down into a single macro and still perform at a mid-high level.

I legitimately don't understand how anyone can look at that and say that new SMN is fine from a gameplay perspective when it's that dumbed down.