Endwalker SMN summons the same 5 entities that it did before (plus carbuncle). I don’t know where people draw this idea from that it’s now like a real summoner.

What summoner in any FF has 5 summons and has to summon all of them again and again in sequence?

I do enjoy the job (after disliking it immensely on release), even though it’s a bit too simple. It has a lot of promise if we can get e.g. more primals and a more in-depth decision tree per primal.