solution for VIT vs STR tank issue

[Kosmos992k]

Unless they fundamentally change the way the stat works and how it appears on our gear this will never be a factor to counter the VIT/STR argument.

With the way it works currently you don't choose between STR and Tenacity. You choose between Crit/Det/SS and Tenacity. If they made the stat itself stronger. People would still want STR THEN Tenacity.

If they changed the way the stat worked, for example putting it on every piece of tank gear without replacing any current secondary stat (kinda like how block is built into PLD's shields) and remove it as an alternative to the other secondaries, then that would be another way to go about the issue.

Indeed. To me, Tenacity is pointless as is. They should remove it, or make it worth something. If making it worth something requires the larger changes you describe, so be it. At the moment it's destinted to be as popular for melding as Parry was.