You people are ignoring the part of the post that talks about casual content, and forgetting that up-to-date raid scenarios are like 5% of the game. Paladin might have less DPS and raidwide mitigation utility, but for most of the content all the utility and cross class skills Paladin has are really, really good. You might argue that top end content is the only one that "matters," but in the end all of us have to do Weeping City weekly, have to do roulettes for tomes, etc. Some of us also like doing Mentor roulette, et. al, where you can't know the quality of your party and your healers. You might argue that these are niche or unimportant scenarios, but in the end they share similar amounts of time you spend in the game, so it's really no different than hardcore raid times in terms of gaming experience.