I still don't know why we need to split them. I know everyone talks about SMN either being 2.0 FFXIV or FFXI... but you can have both.

I think an easer solution is to have your summons/egis represent all your spells, period. The summons can cast primarily dot spells under their animations with the occasional giant nuke spell at the end of a particular rotation.

I never understood why me, as the character, need a book to cast Bio to begin with. I thought my book was to cast egis/summons. The only thing I should be doing is telling my summon what to do. Like it casting some variant of Bio for me.