I don't know in pvp but in pvm now the tamer is the worst profession you can imagine of.
It just doesn't make sense to travel with a greater dragon that costs you 310 skill points (90 vet included for ressing) when you can do faster and better with 110 mystic and 110 focus/imbuing AND kill things you can't even dare to approach with a pet (slasher, stygian dragon, minions, champions - but barracoon, it has high hit dispel, necromobs - pack of spellcasters and so on).
So it has not been "leveled out a bit": the designers killed it, buried it and then happily peed on its tomb.
Of course we can say the same of many other professions (the pure warrior and the bomberman, just to name two very funny pvm chars of the past).