If some people were so concerned about their dots and others that the job doesn't feel like summoner at all then the best solution could've been to rename the dot job as (Insert a Name Here) Mage (like Void Mage, for example) and postpone SMN for 5.0 as an entirely new job with it's own assets and not related to Arcanist. This wouldn't discard SMN from the game (just postponed) and Dot Job would still exist for people that like it as it was.

Right now for me SMN is a mess and aside from some tweaks to improve damage, that's the class we'll have to work with till 5.0, sadly. I envy people that like it because I can't like it all and I was a huge fan of it in 3.x