Please no. If i wanted to micro manage a pet i would have go for summoner or scholar. Not to mention that when you see how much people are complaining of the recent changes, it would be way worse if the job was becoming something even more entirely different. You would be better launching another engineer new job than can order giant mechas and armored robots hounds around (not sure if that would fit the lore though XD).

Turrets are already more than place and forget dots. Too many mobs spawning right next to you ? Place a bishop turret on them, dont aoe the mobs yourself, and here you have a mini tank taking aggro of the ennemies while you pick them one by one from afar. A tank moving a pack of mobs too much, a boss who can toss your turrets aside or is hitting so hard that he destroy them ? You have better not forget to replace one in attack range if you dont want your dps to go down. All the mobs of a pack minus one are dead ? Dont forget to switch to a rook one. Actually they are more interactive than you said, and you have better not totally forget them.