The more I read this thread, the more I find out how bad the new SMN is. I was right in feeling very concerned after trying the new SMN even when people told me "It'll get better". Now that we have an idea of much damage and utility does (or lack thereof), there needs to be a change.

Yet again in another expansion, they messed up with SMN. It's clunkier, a lot less flexible, chaotic and suffers from more button bloat which is pretty backwards from what the devs intended for the battle system. Some people like it and that's okay, but the amount of effort it takes just to have less DPS than a RDM, who arguably has better utility now, isn't okay to me.

I'm hoping they do another great re-rework like SMN from 4.0 to 4.1, I really do.