My point was less “they should make it a full pet job” and more “if they can’t make it a full pet job then don’t make it at all”. If they make it anything other than a pet job then people that want beastmaster won’t like it and people who like it would have been happy with anything else.

That’s why I like the idea of BST as a limited job. They can build an actual pet system that they can experiment with and try ideas on without fear of breaking balance. Then when they settle on something that they feel works it could lead to future non-limited pet jobs, like another SMN rework, puppetmaster, necromancer.