All I know is that the job wouldn't be in the state that it's in now if they had done an honest adaptation of the Final Fantasy Summoner fantasy from the beginning instead of marrying it off to WoW's warlock class. We have a nice little level 50 job...and that's all it is.

Too little too late, give us a full job already with summons that don't follow the gem/demi paradigm and while you're at it give the ex-SMN crowd their Time Mage or Necromancer. There is no long lasting max level content to take this job into anyway, so do as you wish.