Personally I'm putting all my faith on those DoT potency buffs, they -could- potentially save the DRGs, I also like it because I feel the DPS drop would be lower when unable to directly attack the target... But that would probably require quite a boost.

As for HT positional, it has never been that big of a concern to me, but it is annoying when you won't get it to go off when the target decides to turn around suddenly, or the tank is being a derp.

The reason why DRG DPS bugs me is their lack of utility, other classes come with support skills, so it's like an insult to injury when I can't beat a MNK/NIN in DPS despite my best efforts, and don't have anything else to bring on the field. DRGs are pretty much pure DPS, and can't even do that right.