Monk’s one hour is 100 fists, 45s of haste. Greased lightning is built up through hitting the enemy, making yourself faster and stronger with each cycle through your stances. Monk’s animations typically* have multiple impacts, bootshine and six sided star having 3 apiece, combo, howling fists, raging fists, asuran fists, tornado kick, shijin spiral, stringing pummel, maru kalu and dragon blow all hit 2-8 times.

Summoner is just a complete mess without elemental interaction. Likely even a step down from egi smn. Nothing has a niche anymore**, carby only has token commands. It’s barely even a mage.

Speaking of messes, adding a faerie to scholar has severely confused its identity from the established one in other ff games. Nice that they tried something even if it dates from a time when they thought they’d be doing pets.

* I don’t know about the weird new animations, I’ve been trying to pretend they don’t exist.
** admittedly the niches of single target, tanking twoish and aoe didn’t exactly encourage varied use, but neither does casting them all in order.