Hold up, now. I'm a scout, and I have no clue what you are talking about! Admittedly, my pvp skills are sad but a lot might be to due to gears/cards. And sure, scouts don't have A TON (or really any) useful pvp skills, but I find that I am still able to keep up PVE style, and actually pretty survivable in dungeons. Not only do I have awesome crit, hit rate AND evasion, scouts also get -def skills too (max of -11k?) which helps enormously with boss killing. Not only that, my range allows me to fight Crystalisk and even Sharlach relatively worry free as their AoE's cant reach me, and my attack speed allows me to keep myself alive through HP absorb. And with the right build and foods/potions, you are able to be quite versatile. Even your damage can be decent, with the right stuff (my damage on Lisk tops out at 16k right now, no wings, no all stat V's, very few all stat IV's)
I have always been in to ranged classes in MMORPGS, so maybe i possess a little bit of a bias, but i love playing it more than any other (and i have all classes to 75 but healers lol) and always go back to it. I would say that the one BIGGEST drawback to being a scout is the PVP aspect. And maybe i just fail at pvp because I hate it, but scouts dont really do that great. And once you get to the end portions of leveling (thankfully new update soon), get all your gears, and get whatever else you want to get, the only thing left is PVP for gears, items, etc. So at that point...maybe not so great anymore.
I wouldnt rule out at least trying out a scout (despite the haters, lol) but you likely wont be the center of your group any time soon (or ever) and will only ever be a helper for bosses and such.