So, after the patch, how goes it with Paladin?

[Brannigan]

My problem is that it's the *sole* thing this community grades tanks on.

This isn't really true because we're not dealing with hypothetical tanks. Dark Knight has more than enough mitigation to survive anything the game throws at it without extra healer attention and warrior's mitigation easily rivals paladin and in some cases exceeds it. The reality is that because their mitigation is pretty equal, damage is how you distinguish which one is better than the others. Of course here I'm talking about classes and not individuals - an individual can easily require more healer attention because they're tunnel visioning or wasting cooldowns on abandon stacks.