Who plays paladin anymore? Just make it a healer and give it all the CNJ cross class abilities + Holy.
Sarcasm aside yeah it'd make paladin less viable then what people already perceive, when you can clear content in this game with any class in your group, but I hope they do tweak paladin it used to be my main tank but now I drift off to war for it's slashing/path and Drk for it's great MT dps as well as fun play style. For me paladin just isn't an option since the other 2 tanks to me are more enjoyable.