Bards vs summoner mechanics

To me, bard and summoner are completely unrelated. As I see the pairings and any kind of combo/counter-abilities would be for these classes:

Tank and Fighter
Rogue and Ranger
Cleric and Bard
Mage and Summoner

So if Summoner did have some kinds of buffs/debuffs, I'd expect the Mage to have the ability to deal with them or boost them somehow.

As a Bard/Rogue, I'm not interested in being forced to play as a cleansing healer.

I doubt my Summoner is interested in being forced to always summon with a healing/cleansing focus either.

I'm all about the buffs, and even status resistances, but if I want to cleanse things I'll go Secondary Archetype: Cleric. Don't force me to act like "/Cleric" because my Cleric literally can't.

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