Great post, the points you bring up worry me so much as well. Especially the lack of Mace traits and how useless the elite is. I mean come on, the elite of the condition build enabling legend should at least be usable for a condi build. At the moment it is just wasted energy compared to Unyielding Anguish…
I crafted full sinsiter for my revenant and I enjoy playing a hybrid build on him, but this build will never be accepted in a raid, because it is just suboptimal atm.