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Grit is a 23% DPS loss from what a DRK would be doing without it. You don't pretend Darkside is limited to Grit stance to fluff numbers. (.8*1.15 = .92) to (1.15 - .92 = .23)
So what you're saying is that if you use Grit and Darkside together, then Grit directly reduces your damage by 23% of the DPS you would do if you didn't use darkside at all. Which is a silly way to look at it.

Grit just costs you 20% of the damage you were doing when you turn it on.

Well, it also means no blood weapon, but I don't feel like trying to calculate the direct contribution of Blood Weapon because you have to figure in how the MP is going to translate to damage as a % of your total potency without the mp. It's not as much as SwO.

Anyhow, I think the biggest complaint is that PLD loses SwO damage AND the damage penalty of ShO when swapping SwO > ShO, which is pretty hefty. DRK loses Blood Weapon and Grit. Since SwO accounts for more of a PLD's OT damage than Blood Weapon does to the DRK, the PLD is going to lose more DPS than the DRK will when swapping from DPS stance > Tank stance. Since the PLD already has lower OT damage, they're even worse off when in ShO.