Honestly people are blowing stuff way out of proportion with "mitigation lost" if you need an extra CD, we have a passive 20% DR, you run out of CDs? your co-tank can provide one, they buffed oath gauge building if you read any of the tooltips, so both autos and RA gives oath gauge, you won't be spending sheltron like crazy fishing for Shield swipe procs anymore, so you will have extra gauge to sit on, and sure Divine Veil could still do with some QoL adjustments, say affect the PLD also, maybe have oGCD heals will also proc it, but it has it's niche to maximise it's duration but not gonna cry over it. The nerf/ buff on Sentinel is fine, the extra 10% never made a massive difference, found myself more complaining at how long I had to wait for it, also Vengeance had a 5sec duration nerf if you wanna go tit for tat. Sure cover got nerfed some, but it was too broken in SB, could cheese the tank share in 12s as the most notable frequent use of it.

As for the potency buffs, they are insanely nice to get compared to the potencies of the other tanks, as for the comment about feller cleave, they are only achievable via infuriate (can only stack 2) so good luck getting 5 of them and you surely won't waste em under IR either. Also we finally get real meaningful AoE that compliments PLD's ST rotation which is really nice to have after 6 years. Honestly, PLD got some really nice changes for ShB mostly all positives, free gap closer, the lvl 78 trait is awesome, no more worries about losing a HS cast under req because of mechanics and can finally block while in req, my biggest gripe is gone.