As much as I support FF in their decisions too, I have to agree. This time it's just harder to enjoy FF while being forced to use a certain element to case AOE and such..I've had to use Fire on fire-resistant enemies a lot already just because it's my only good AOE right now >.>

I know they're trying to make THM's black mages and all, but I don't want elemental spells, I felt awesome just having light and dark spells..they felt badass for some reason. And now they're gone ;_;

As for the summoner thing, yeah, having EVERY job able to summon something is pretty lame.. and disappointing. I was hoping to have to work at being a powerful summoner, but I guess that won't happen.