They're looking to appease the masses and leave no one out. I understand the approach. Big Primals give the companies/linkshells to strive for. Smaller summons and Tamed creatures being class specific approaches, to give an indiviual idenity to things and then the chocobo buddy growing with you and then fighting alongside you, for the novelty effect of having your own personalized chocobo at your side. I like all of the ideas, I wasnt keen on playing SMN in XI, no mage class really got my interest. Whereas here, I've stuck primarily to BLM/THM as my main focus. So I may have to give SMN a try as well. But as I said, honestly as long as they can make something like Alexander, my personal favorite summon, into a truly epic, monstrous scale thing. I'll be happy, even if I cant have a miniture one follow me around lol