Quote Originally Posted by Supersnow845 View Post
Yes and I don’t think that either approach is wrong or right. Why should the older approach be used just because it’s older. Like it’s basically 3 4 5 and 9 versus 10 11 12 with 14 employing both designs throughout its history and 16 kinda straddling both but leaning towards 10 11 and 12

I don’t really thing you can point to a definitive identity of SMN either way by just saying “look at what it was like in the past”

Especially since the arguable most iconic summoner in the series is yuna and yuna is very much the pet style permanent summon, not the “do a magic attack and disappear”
This is specifically adressing your criticism saying that summoner isn't true to form because the summons are not operating as pets, and I am simply saying that is not true. I wouldn't consider Yuna to be a pet style summoner either. Summons in X have a fixed duration and while you can control the for a time it's at the expense of the rest of the party. They are not permanent fixtures in combat and Yuna does not control one every moment, she in fact has a plethora of skills and magic at her disposal outside of it.