How bad are the issues with DRK?

[Dregenfox]

The FF logs are placing warrior DPS as ~7-8% ahead of paladin and a bit more over Drk. War also has one of the best defensive cooldown sets in the game. Certainly it's a fault of the game that defensive ability is useless, but warrior does have merits and is in nowhere near a bad a shape as you imply.

Warrior just needs some QOL changes and a slight buff to damage and everything will be fine.

[Shinkyo]

The FF logs are placing warrior DPS as ~7-8% ahead of paladin and a bit more over Drk.

I don't know where you see that in fflog because the top 10 parse (excluding balance) on Susano EX for each tanks are :
- WAR: 2,767.5- 2,914.5
- PLD: 2,900.2 - 3,161.9
- DRK: 2,692.2 - 2,800.7

The entire PLD Top 10 is above WAR/DRK parses...
I will take Susano EX as more representative as both tanks have fairly split responsibilities tanking.

But I agree that WAR isn't thaaaat bad... there's only a few tweaks and it can be easily brought to a good state.
It's just that PLD is sooooo good right now. if WAR was OP in 3.x, 4.0 PLD is another class of OP altogether.