Its only braindead to the people that have never even bothered to play it. Explain how its braindead?
First off, you have to constantly manage your ini and your endurance. If you cant do that, you will die. You only have enough for a few dodges so you have to figure out how to keep yourself alive until you gain back enough for an attack and or a dodge. You also have to time each attack/dodge right or all you are doing is wasting ini and or end.
Its actually one of the hardest classes to play.
Your "braindead build" comments only shows us that you have ZERO experience playing D/D thief.
Also, im sorry you dont like condi.. Maybe they should bring back those "braindead one shot power builds" you seem to like.