Which part of summoner's rotation am I meant to find satisfying?

[Dahlinea]

Casting titan egi instead of summoning it and having nothing to manage while spamming ruin are two pretty severe problems. I don’t think anyone would call egi assaults perfect but at least they existed. Maybe they could have gotten away with being able to tie the egi to the boss’s movement as a pet action to reduce ghosting in most fights?

I’m not particularly convinced astral flow feels like anything other than busywork. This might be because you don’t fill the gauges, just spend them so it doesn’t really have any connection to your performance. Even gunbreaker (and samurai and warrior!) has a more involved gauge system

Most of the ghosting problems were because of pet auto-attacks. Let's say the summons stay in the field, don't auto-attack but apply some kind of effect to SMN or party. If they only do what we command I guess most of the ghosting would be gone, especially if those summons abilities are ranged. Unless, of course, you decided to used one of their abilities at the end of their timer... but that would be a player problem and not the system, like what used to happen when players forget to use second Ahk Morn or Revelation during Demis...

Would also be interesting to see old pet actions back as field effects. For example, if Ifrit is out Radiant Shield is applied to all party members doing that counter shield effect. If Garuda is out, Contagion is applied to all enemies in a certain range increasing the damage they take from SMN. If Titan is out Earthen Ward shield is applied to party members...