Inevitable Job Simplifications?

[Dahlinea]

"I like meaningful choices that matter...".

What the hell are you talking about? Current SMN has the most rigid and flat rotation of all jobs and chaging between the legos doesn't make difference. You can pretend that you're doing something different by changing the order of the legos but that is just an illusion. Also "meaningful choices that matter" means that if you choose another approach to the rotation the result will be different, which is the complete opposite of current SMN.

"Meaningful choices that matter" would be for example, by considering the situation in a certain point in the battle, you're safe to use long casts then you decide to summon Ifrit and casts his Gemshine spells for as long as you see fit and when you need to move you summon the Garuda that has the insta cast Gemshine to adapt to the situation and then could come to back to ifrit again and so on. This is an example of meaningful choice that matter... leaving the choices to players to decide and the freedom to use spells however we want whenever we want. Here we would have some room for growth but with this sorry excuse of SMN rework they gave us it's all the same no matter what you do. There's also the case of lack of OGCDs. Take Tri-disaster for example, moving to basic AoE spell and deleting Outburst, killing a perfectly fine OGCD for no reason. They literally cut every possible way of meaningful variation for SMN with this damn rework.