Good direction with SMN!

[Archwizard]

This though.

I've been saying for years that SMN's attacks should poof mini primals into existence for one-off attacks, with the actual summoner being less involved in the attacks.

Sometimes I wonder how different it would be if they just replaced all Egis with Carbuncles full-time, and desynch'd Egi Assaults from your current summon.
Just 6 cooldowns with 2 charges apiece, 3 of each having shared CDs, each having different effects.
Give each a different Demi-Primal visual effect like Deathflare. 1 in each set for single-target (Shiva burst, Ifrit DoT), 1 in each set for AoE (Ramuh cleave, Garuda GTAoE), 1 in each set for utility (Levi shield, Titan stun).

Mechanically I don't see it being too different beyond hotbar space, and yet I also imagine the playerbase would complain less about SMN. Aside from those lore nuts, of course.