Yes I kinda dissed the design team there but not in a mean or trollish way.
I sincerely just want them to progress and move forward instead of making it worse than it was.

Basically, why is it that FFXI can have a real representation of primals while FFXIV can't? I know it's lore related but really that's a bad excuse ALL AROUND.

Look, an image of a primal can be just that, an image. I don't want a 20ft Ifrit but at least a 6ft Ifrit that isn't a toy flying over my shoulders.

Square-Enix and Yoshida, please take into account how much immersion matters to us. I know immersion matters to you too. Make the people who loved Yuna as a Summoner proud, we want real Primals.

Hide them when you enter a city, that's fine. Or even turn them into the efigi-form you enter a city. But outside while in combat I want to see the real image of a primal.

Why not use the image of the primal we fight against in the class quest for obtaining that primal efigi?