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There's probably several other approaches I haven't touched, including the one I know everyone here would oppose for the sake of continuing to hate on games like WoW, which would be make STR and VIT the main stats on all tank gear and then have the classes individually scale from those stats in their own way (STR counting towards shield block rating for warriors, as opposed to death knights whose parry rating scaled from STR, for example).

The bottom line is that itemization may not be exactly helping PLD's case, and IMO that would need to change.
Sorry but avoiding wall of text.

There are a few others, but at the end of the day it all boils down to about the same thing, GLA/PLD is working off of the wrong stats.
STR is a DMG stat, how strong I am doesn't help me get my shield in the way of that sword, it doesn't help me dodge the next attack and it doesn't help me get my weapon up into the path of the next attack headed my way. It does determine how large a shield I can carry effectively, since a larger shield covers more of me it stands to reason that it'd be easier to block with, it doesn't have to move as far or as accurately, than say a buckler which I'd have to move pretty precisely to make sure that it ate the brunt of the next attack instead of my arm, that's a dex/agi thing.
VIT(endurance) is the ability to withstand things typically of a physically exhausting nature. This is a very passive stat having it affect things like HP and physical dmg reduction make sense.
DEX is mostly covered in my rant on STR but it also works toward getting a weapon precisely positioned when you attack so that accuracy thing.
INT(IQ) gets into the somewhat invisible and arbitrary things, harder to measure but the use stands to reason, it takes brain power to cast a spell more means brain more effect, I think PIE was a mistake in it's present conception.
MND(a function of IQ) working in tandem with INT like STR<>VIT only for magic
PIE ok this is the brainy equiv to DEX, it was a poor choice of names since it implies holiness and devotion to god/gods, would imply that it's a WHM base stat and that WHM is based on devotion/holiness/god/gods/light magic, were this the case it would also affect cure potency but MND already does this, but they've obviously gone and made it a Druid instead of a WHM, they need to rename WHM or PIE lol

With that all said and out of the way:
IF PLD isn't meant to be a DDing Tank STR should simply NOT be one of it's primary stats. They should be chosen from DEX(block acc/rate) VIT(hp pdt) MND(Cure potency, mdt)

That's it, all that preamble for that little bit.

Edit: I failed in avoiding the wall, but it's not as bad as it could have been.