The "pup community" is not demanding anything.

I am a 90 PUP with all the bells and whistles, and I perform just fine. Does pup totally stand out as awesome right now? No. Is it reasonably balanced? I'd say so. It's very difficult to make a pet job balanced. They tend to be either too weak or too strong, and SE generally errs on the side of not making things too strong (much to our dismay, most of the time). They've been doing better in this area lately. Valoredge finally got a WS that's worth letting him use TP for.

As far as the new stuff goes-
New ranged WS is not so hot. This I agree needs to be changed.
The Heat Capacitor is a decent idea, but I can't really use it when it's 2 fire to equip. I only really have 1 fire that I can give up for a different attachment.
The Barrage turbine is full of win. Best use of wind capacty since I always have at least that many wind free on Sharpshot.
Galvanizer is OK in concept, but again, its one of those attachments that is rendered useless by it's elemental requirement.