Anyone else think caster has suffered this expansion? (hopes for the future)

[Ggwppino]

Red mage and summoner pay a Rez tax.

Red mage pay the Rez Tax. Smn is currently being treated with kid gloves than it deserves.

As a "lifelong" smn player, we currently find ourselves in an unfair position for both blm and rdm. The smn is a bug to the system: it has no resources to manage and no significant optimizations to do, an operationally simple and simplistic rotation, high movement, non-existent casts and a buff that has a half minute window, but has damage equal to if not greater than the rdm. All due to the fact that SQE had the discontent of people who didn't like the new rework and also felt teased for the little damage output it had.
Currently the smn would have to pay so many "taxes" that the ress falls into the background

[Renathras]

SMN needs some serious help. Honestly have no idea what they were thinking removing all the dots and everything that made it unique.

Offhand, they probably were thinking how Summoners have nothing to do with disabling/debuffing/enfeebling/poisoning things, so the DoTs were very out of place on the Job. Arguably Energy Drain/Fester are now (Siphon and especially Painflare less so), though.

Interestingly, I dislike BLM and RDM, but like SMN. (RDM's AOE rotation being "backwards" sets my OCD off...)

The smn is a bug to the system: it has no resources to manage and no significant optimizations to do, an operationally simple and simplistic rotation, high movement, non-existent casts and a buff that has a half minute window,

It's strange to me that everything you hate about SMN is what I love about it, and what you want for it is what I hate about RDM and BLM. The only thing I think is stupid is how little damage RDM does, which isn't a problem with SMN, it's a problem with RDM tuning. RDM shouldn't be doing less damage than the party buffing Ranged Jobs, yet here we are.

EDIT:

Boss hitboxes should probably go back to what they were pre-Endwalker. The large hitboxes making it braindead easy for melee to stay in attack range has done perhaps the most harm to casters this expansion.

100% agreed.