SE and "borrowing" elements from other FF games

[Amherst]

No Final Fantasy prior to VIII let the player completely customize/optimize their character stats.

Customize is a bit of a joke considering you just boosted every single stat by X amount...or you didn't have enough and in the end only boosted it by Y instead. "Optimize" is rendered completely pointless since, as with almost every other game in the series, eventually you're just hitting everything for 9999 (multiple times or otherwise) anyway.

No Final Fantasy Prior to VIII locked Summon learned ability to having the summon equipped.

I don't see how that's supposed to be a good thing.