Taking a look at PLD and what could be a quick(er) fix.

[Malicewolf]

that being said, i love playing paladin and i dont care at all how its dps is bad, i like the style of it so i play it regardless of it doing much lower dps than my war and i still prefer to MT as a pld than to MT as a war

Just putting this out there. The cure part is more so an additional aspect that could help identify a PLD as it's own tank style. But would you turn down a PLD who could raise for an extra 300 DPS? Personally, I would not (because we all know just how great duty finder can be). I can't tell you how many times I'm the last one standing in a boss fight (because, you know, high defense and high hp) and I wish more than anything I could just pop a raise on one of the healers. I could just Hallow Ground and raise.

[Callidus]

... But would you turn down a PLD who could raise for an extra 300 DPS? Personally, I would not (because we all know just how great duty finder can be).

PLD's problems aren't with Duty Finder though. Sure when a duty pops and they see a PLD they might wish they'd gotten a WAR or DRK to put out better numbers, but I've never had anyone ragequit a duty or boot me due to being a PLD. Most people doing DF content are just glad they have a tank at all so they can get on with doing their daily/weekly grind.

Savage groups and even some party finder groups are where the issue of PLD exclusion comes into play. Would these types of groups turn down a PLD that can raise for 300 more DPS? Many of them, especially progression raiders, would and I wouldn't blame them.

Any content designed to make PLD's physical damage mitigation and support abilities so attractive as to make PLD a preferred tank would just swing the pendulum the other direction and leave one of the other tanks (likely DRK) in the same situation PLD has been in since 3.0. Even most PLDs don't want this.

In any case, PLD is not anywhere near as relatively superior in it's greatest strengths of physical mitigation and "utility" as it is relatively inferior in its greatest weaknesses of MT DPS and AOE DPS.

EDIT: I'd like to clarify that my comments on PLDs being excluded was in response to a (probably) rhetorical question that I quoted. Even in those scenarios where PLDs are welcomed into content where DRK/WAR is preferred, it is still usually to the groups disadvantage even if people are too kind to say so, as has been my experience.