Just gonna make a few points...
1) It's part of the story from the last game. If there were summons in X-2, it would totally contradict X's ending.
2) See above.
3) That's fair enough.
4) There's also extremely hard bosses. Paragon and Trema anyone?
5) Fair enough again. Though I don't think the Garment Grid/Dressphere system was crap at all.
7) Makes it more difficult in my opinion.
8) See above.
9.) Aren't too easy at all. Certainly no more easy than X's.
10) Why is it you moan about things being easy (Bosses, Monsters, etc) then moan when something is hard (Like having to actually work for strong spells, Bosses using chains, etc)?