Inevitable Job Simplifications?

[Dahlinea]

Oh?
Wall of text with a lot of misconceptions

Fist of all, ShB SMN was not disjointed the way you paint it to be. The more I read your posts the more I see that you didn't understand how to play old SMN at all and probably just read how it works on some site teaching how to play and optimize it... or is just outright trolling.

Energy Drain/Syphoon gave Fester that needed DoTs applied to get its maximum damage. DoTs were applied either by using Bio and Miasma or Tri-disaster. The latter were refreshed every time you used DWT or Summon Phoenix. Egi-assaults gave Further Ruin stacks to use Ruin IV during movement phases outside Bahamut or during Bahamut to maximize its Wyrmwave attacks that were triggered by our spells. Want to call it cluncky because of pet responsiveness? Fine. But disjointed? Nah... you don't seem to know the old job like you claim it.

Current SMN is more disjoint than ever, the only thing tying something to another one is summoning Bahamut/Phoenix to have access to your legos and that's one of the reasons the job is so rigid. Your legos don't interact with each other, they are all disjoint and don't affect anything else in the rotation. Bahamut/Phoenix are self contained and don't interact with anything else in the rotation. The Demis are glorified DoTs now and do their attacks automatically. Aetherflow just give Fester, which don't need anything from the rotation to do its max damage, and a single Ruin IV that's worthless as a tool for movement since 90% of SMN spells are instacast. Would be better if Aetherflow gave 2 or more stacks of hardcasted Ruin IV spells to use for filler instead of Ruin III in a optimal scenario...

Also

There aren't disparate systems; there almost aren't any systems at all.

You said it all. There is basically no system to manage, that's why the job is braindead as it is. And that's why we're complaining about it.