I believe dire lord will still fill the void for those who played sks. The ability to self heal as a tank.. be it threw epic or life leech. In raids a sks job was to off tank or instant agro raid mobs when warriors went down... they still have extra threat generation ability to possibly emulate that. My only issue was being relegated to simply edged weapons. I thought 1hb was good option in sk... seems a bit silly to just keep it edged weapons then add a blunt effect to counter those who are resistent to slash damage.
I do feel for those expecting an SK. I think anyone who played Vanguard knew exactly the kind of class the DL would be, but those who only had the SK as their reference were in for a disappointment (if they loved the SK that is. For me personally the SK was a seriously deisappointing and flawed design, the Dreadknight in VG was prefereable to me, and the DL here looks to be the perfected version)