Personally I like how SMN plays at max lvl (low lvl it’s a broken mess) and its similarities to Warlock are what drew me in from WoW as that was my main for several years, but it does seem somewhat disjointed mixing dots and summons. Sure you can reason it out with enough effort but it’s not obvious how everything works together and even how then job plays it’s like you’re trying to do two different things at once rather than one cohesive thing. I like the idea of splitting those two things into two different jobs.

Summoner on its own has so very much potential to do things related to summoning it really doesn’t need all this stuff with Aetherflow/Fester/Miasma/etc. Even the permanent summons are little more than glorified dots that kinda take away from the awesomeness of summoning a primal.

What the new dot class could be and how to deal with SMN and SCH being paired idk, but it’s not impossible.