It is rather curious that WotC has not released official "updates" to early classes that have obvious problems due to being early 4E designs. They had no problem retooling the entire skill challenge rules when it was noticed they didn't work as intended. Why not do the same for the classes, etc?
And no, I am not saying the early classes are unplayable as-is, I just think it's pretty clear they could be better designed, and had some unusual aspects that were not understood until the game was released and played extensively.
C4, what you are doing is interesting, and something I agree that WotC should have already done. Maybe this will be a nice wakeup call to say "people want to see this done."