i would prefer pally doing less damage but focus on utility- buff power crash by lowering cd. that way, like bowmasters, they do less dmg but are required for quick boss runs.
They do less than NL though. Hero drk does less than nl too but their job is aoe dps. Bm job is some dps plus essential SE. Pally joh should also be some dps plus essential time saving powercrash
I personally believe that the paladin class was just under/poorly developed and in order to make them a good pick, they would need to change considerably. Threaten needs to do something (literally anything at all, and also at a 100% rate) and ACB needs to have a much better hit box (preferably one that isn't inconsistent with the swing animations). Paladins could be good, but nostalgia is a core feature in mapleroyals :^)