I'm honestly really ok with this idea. It prevents people from creating a monoply over the Primals. Although we dont know a great deal about how the Free Companies themselves are meant to work, there may be a way to sort of exploit that too.

But doing the Primals this way should allow them to keep the summoning and usage to grand, epic scale things. Personally..I want to see a truly massive, castle-esque Alexander that blocks out the sun to obliterate something with divine judgment.

Though I'm curious, is it possible for a Dev to talk to someone and get us a possibly teaser, if not a full, maybe a handful of Primals they intend to release? Just for teaser sakes.