Here is the thing if they decide to take that direction of smn its fine give us a list of smn and add them to gems or do a different combination to have a different demi summon however from what im seeing is that going forward thats nothing really going to change. Hear me out. We had the exact same summons since AAR. Promised of egi glamours etc. People always asked for more summons but never got them.
For me i want summoner to be about the pets and not the player itself. I dont want to channel the power of titan to do the move i want titan to stay out in the field doing the actions that i tell them todo like. ( which i already know that they cant fix the ai for)
to me the dots system was alright but looking through on why they removed "The Job Actions of the Summoner had reached its limits. It was barely possible to add new Job Actions, so we decided to do a massive overhaul with the release of 6.0.. The first concept of this overhaul was to remove all DoTs." for pet focus actions That being said, its get you thinking on what was the other concepts they had for smn.
Source: https://www.siliconera.com/yoshi-p-e...xiv-endwalker/
and join the club about the class change. Ive been told several times that, if you like something keep playing it nothing more nothing less