So does every hate new PLD now?

[Shurrikhan]

But remember boys, 2 min meta is more important then how a job feels.

Except PLD's making better use of two-minute raid buffs did not necessitate Boring Blade, nor any of the gameplay changes beyond FoF affecting also affecting magical damage and Confiteor no longer requiring 4 prior Holy Spirit casts?

I'm disappointed by the changes, but the gameplay shifts within them have far more to do with the broader goals across all job revisions upon and since 5.0 to lower floors and ceilings than they do with any alignments to 20 seconds of raid buffs.

...Else we'd likely have seen Goring Blade remain (but perhaps again on a 24s duration to offer some flexibility), seen FoF made a more significant but 2-minute buff, and perhaps seen FoF give 3 stacks of Sword Oath, etc.

And dont get me started on why pld needs a split on Sheltron blockrate to add Bulwark.

This one actually seems to make perfect sense to me.

There are no advantages to mitigation from using Block over... flat mitigation of an equal percentile (Holy Shelltron still provides 30% miti now). There are, however, disadvantages, as one cannot block Critical Hits nor block while CCed.

Previously, no other "on-demand" defensives held any unique disadvantages or situational value; DRK had Dark Mind with lower value vs. physical attacks and GNB had Camouflage with lower value vs. magic and WAR's Thrill of Battle provided faintly lower eHP than either in their respective niches, but TBN, HoC, and BW all worked reliably in all situations.

Now, PLD likewise has a situational "alt-CD" and a reliable "on-demand".

Moreover, Shelltron can now stack with blocking, whereas Shelltron previously, in effect, prevented any natural block chance to force the mitigation it now provides in a way that can stack with it.

So you now have more reliable mitigation on your on-demand that no longer has anti-synergy with PLD's unique feature (blocking), and more discrete defensive options by having added Bulwark (a pretty direct alt-CD analog to ToB, DM, Camo) to the repertoire instead of simply buffing Holy Shelltron and Sentinel.