I played Revenant a little myself on this beta as well as the previous betas. But I can see I never went into the depth like you did Bovan
I share the same general impression of the current state of the revenant is more or less angled towards support, conditions, healing and very little towards direct damage. But we can hope the remaining specialization will fill in the damage role. But I also felt that I wasn’t helping the party too much when playing on revenant. At the beginning I thought it was only because I suck at playing Revenant, but after a while I thought there might be more to it. I have a feeling that the current state of Revenant is qute far from final.
Hopefully Anet at least fix the “unlimited” tablets when playing as Ventari. Don’t remember wich skill, but some other players have covered that pretty well on Reddit as far as I remember.
I like the general thought about the revenant, but hope the profession will get some fixes and adjustments before launch of HoT. Hope Anet will read Bovan’s feedback and probably add that into consideration when completing the Revenant.