Quote Originally Posted by aveyond-dreams View Post
The above post summs it up pretty well. Classes change. Sometimes you will like it. Sometimes you will not. Just because you don't like it does not mean you will be able to strongarm them into changing things back or adding in things the bulk of people do not want-the numbers in favor of the "complexity dot caster!" aren't there, not when compared to everyone who is having fun being an actual Summoner and wants more in the vein of that, whether more is added in 6.X or 7.0.

Some people here act like new SMN is as scandalous as when they turned Bard and Machinist into casters, or that the this topic is as controversial as the whole male Viera drama. It straight up isn't.

The last thing I'm expecting in the live letter is any news related to job balancing, they expressly said this was for something completely different. It's long past the time to move on from this topic. By this point in Shadowbringers I had already bounced from old SMN and was done levelling RDM/BLM/DNC, I wasn't still going in endless circles like these threads are.
Every reasonable person I talked to on here and discord has never said they wanted old smn back. Most including myself want them to correct the problems with the new smn and add more to an unfinished job. You say it's time to move on from this topic, well I say we should continue to voice our minds and criticize a flawed job. You honestly can't tell me with a straight face that new smn is a perfect job and no one should complain about it. It's an unfinished job that the devs need to address and complete. If you are tired of seeing these topics and think smn is perfect then leave, stop looking at these topics on the forums and enjoy your life. Meanwhile, those who actually care about raiding as smn(like myself) will continue to voice our options. You not going to stop us so how about you stop trying. All we want is a job that is fun in high-end content and the same level of quality of a rework that mnk received in this very same expansion.