Seriously. I can't queue for anything with them out, which knocks out a HUGE chunk of content and really makes them incredibly frustrating when I want to both level my character and level my chocobo.

And then today I found out you can't even summon a minion with your chocobo out???

What did SE have against people doing things other than mindless FATE spams or mob grinds when they were designing the companion system?!