I suppose we'll have to wait until 4.1 to see if there's any major changes planned for SMN/MCH. In my humble opinion both are very clunky and needlessly contrived when compared to how smoothly some of the other jobs play. It's hard for me to get excited about raw damage adjustments when the 'smoothness' just isn't there.

I have to say, though, it's a little troubling if there is indeed 'regret' about adding SMN to the game. I can appreciate that you cannot please everybody but I imagine most SMN fans just really wanted the focus to be on summoning given how that was the primary focus of the job whenever it showed up in other Final Fantasy titles.