Experience with Rogue Class and thoughts per 5-8-19

Current goods and bads:

Current goods:
-The fix to hide has helped leveling tremendously
-The ability to wear plate is a boon in many situations such as survivability boost and flexibility in creating gear sets
-Leveling as rogue actually feels pretty good. Backstab damage, even with dirty fighting trained, is fairly well balanced during leveling so that, even with a 2-hander, sometimes you may not one-shot mobs when at minimum level to pass for zone. Examples are Crystal Titans in mines, and Frost Giants in FF - I was typically using a 2-hander (Redwood, then Kenku) in those zones and occasionally had to double-stab those mobs.
-While this is 'good' for people playing, I think it might actually be a bad. There is no disadvantage to leveling/pvp'ing with a 2-hander. I'll re-post this in the bad section with some clarification.
-Balance is pvp is interesting. A good rogue can feasibly beat anyone but a zombie, but a rogue making bad decisions can be demolished by just about anyone. I believe adding perception and giving rogues some decision-making other than how many are in the room is necessary.

Current bads:
-Passing for miss and follow-up reliability - already stated and I don't think I need to re-hash
-Lack of utility - I think this is a relic from DFC, but I think all classes should have something to contribute to realm offense and to realm defense. Current utility is just lockpick. Perhaps that is enough, but I would like to see something if possible. I'll post ideas in lacks section.
-No difference between 1h and 2h backstab. Especially for leveling, there is zero reason to use a 1h over a 2h. I would like to see increased pass and miss timers for 2h and perhaps bleed/poison mechanics exclusively on 1h. With current HP levels, backstab is actually, I think, in a pretty good spot damage-wise. I typically use a 2H because using a 1H does not guarantee a zero (neither does 2hander against certain targets). Giving the ability to have a relatively faster pass timer (1s for 1hander vs 1.5 or 2sec for 2hander for example) and potentially bleed/poison mechanics exclusively on 1handers introduces a choice that stabbers could make depending on their play-style.
-Hide - Rogue hide seems to be on par or possibly worse than other classes. I believe stabber hide should be tier one, with all other classes falling somewhere lower.

Current lacks:
Utility - would love to see something like grapple wall to allow rogues to get behind the main fighting at docks and cause some confusion and chaos. Would also allow for some solo pvp with inherent risk of incurring a timer into a room where enemy is waiting. Other ideas are sabotage wall, which increases damage that your comrades do to walls. Smoke bomb which creates a room-wide evasiveness gain to maybe allow for running by a waiting ambush, etc.
Reliable follow-up
Decision-making in general - both from a weapons stand point and target standpoint, there is very little decision making for a high-level rogue to make.

Stat-point weight - specifically strength. Plays no role in backstab damage. I think it would be interesting if rogues couldn't max all stats in the future and stat points were such that they had to make a choice between stab damage (str) and stab reliability (dex or agil)