What Makes a Paladin? An Essay on Paladin Identity

[Reynhart]

You're essentially saying Shield Oath is lackluster because of Inner Beast and Soul-eater. You're saying Sword Oath is weak because of Fell Cleave. Read that again. Does that make sense to you? If it does, you need to check your logic.

No, I'm saying that Shield and Sword Oath are bland because they doesn't change anything besides their basic effect. Back in 2.x, it was even worse. Since both Oath are "fire and forget" skills, the gameplay difference between Gladiator and Paladin was minimal. When compared to MRD and WAR, you could clearly see what the OP called the "lack of Identity".
Again, I'm not talking about stronger or weaker skills.

Nevermind the fact that DRK has no offensive stance. Darkside is a persistent damage buff along the lines of Maim and Eye.

Sorry, but no. Maim and Eye will fall if you don't reapply them, Blood of the Dragon will fall if you don't manage it properly. Darkside is a stance, it changes the gameplay of DRK (Again, something that no oath does, wether you have one activated or not) and it will never fall by itself.
And it's absolutely offensive.

What really pisses me off is these people asking for more and crying about what they don't have when they aren't getting anywhere close to the most out of what they do have.

Maybe it's because what we do have is either what the other tanks have or so situationnal that you could probably forgot you have them. Pray tell me how I can get the most out of Awareness...or Protect...or Cure...or Raise...