Got to 80 and played for a bit I would like to add in my thought

1. Pets

I actually like the change more than dislike it. Now we are able to change pets in mid-battle and are encouraged with Garuda AOE and Ifrit single target. I find this far more interactive than summon and forget. While changing pets was a thing even before, it was a matter of squeezing out the most out of our dps and mostly was not something people would do a lot. (The question of whether we should or not is irrelevant) However, EA seems a bit too blend. Garuda has a bit more reason to have 2 different actions (flat AOE dmg + AOE dmg with aoe DOT groud) but ifrit could use minor adjustment like applying DoT on a single target rather then simple aoe or single. They made distinction between two pets and adjusting skills according to that makes more sense in my opinion.

Titan-egi is a bit of a different issue altogether. I can see the direction that devs took with our nugget and I like the direction, but the execution is questionable. During any encounter, we would spend them as soon as we can I would imagine (at least I have been doing that) and that means my EA1 stack is burnt pretty quickly. That means I see a dangerous dmg coming my way and I summon Titan-egi only to realize that my EA1 is on CD and I've lost my dmg and ate the damage that I was trying to protect myself from. Plus Earth shield not giving us ruin 4 stack is another huge problem. Ruin 4 stack and it's management became quite important in my opinion in optimizing our damage and spending our EA1 but not getting our stack simply makes titan-egi that much less appealing to even summon in the first place. The only time I summoned Titan-egi and successfully used shield was against Titania's big attack and I somehow had 1 EA1 available.
On that, I believe Titan-egi should have a passive effect along the line of smn suffering less dmg as long as Titan is out (or something else that is defensive) so our EA stack(?) is not used for our defense. EA1 on Titan-egi can be another attacking skill.

The real issue with our egi change is that we are completely devoid of any control capacity. Before, pets were different entities with their own controlling ability (Garuda's knockback - everyone's favourite - and stun on ifrit and titan). I believe it was mentioned before and I see this as a problem. BLM has sleep (AOE at that) and RDM can heal for a descent amount instead of control. While it does not go beyond niche mechanic in smn's kit, I think we stand to gain more to have a minor control ability and Titan-egi seems a perfect candidate for that. i.e. - EA1 single target stun/interrupt, EA2 aoe slow, enkindle aoe dmg + puddle with DoT and heavy