I completely understand how people love summons like Ifrit. Even though it may not be the most powerful ever to grace the FF series it's still incredibly popular. For whatever reason SE has decided that in XIV avatars like Ifrit will be highly powerful company summons. The summoner job will summon other sorts of avatars.

I guess I'm just among those who aren't particularly down on this. If we were summoning things like Ifrit, Garuda, etc I'd think 'ok... well... I saw that coming.' It's expected to summon those things. That makes it a little more boring for me in everyday gaming.

For that reason I'm seriously looking forward to summoning some of the other possible avatars like Golem, Yojimbo or Magus Sisters. They're great.