He didn't mention anything about getting hate on a single enemy at higher levels though; just having a provoke type effect. Which Gladiator does have. Unless he actually did mean Taunt specifically which... was always on PGL anyways? And they're (Provoke and Flash) more or less identical when you get them (which obviously isn't factoring in traits) even if they become different as you level due to Class specific traits.

If you want to make a case about not having every single tool you want on one class - I'm pretty sure that's the case for all classes regardless. But as someone that actually is maining gladiator, I haven't had many issues tanking since 1.2 (where as it actually was kind of hard before. Friggen MRDs) and am not entirely sure why you'd want to provoke a single enemy in a crowd anyways, since they tend to link like crazy. Might as well get them all on you initially until the DDs start peeling specific targets off to kill, since you can take hits and might as well blind them in the process. If you really need to pull just a single target out of a crowd that won't link and can't be assed to spend and hour or two getting to MRD 14, though... didn't they increased the range of throwing weapons?