I'd once suggested changing a plds attributes from str+mnd to dex+vit for similar reasons to some of your post.

a problem i see with paladin is you can either put your stats into dex+vit for hp and blockrate etc etc overall survivability. or you can put them in str+mnd for damage and as such emnity generation related to damage. so its a trade off between staying alive and generating hate i think.

so yeah i kinda think putting a glads damage modifiers into dex and vit would kinda make things a bit more uniform and less of a trade off