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5) The entire class is built on the premise that you WILL take Arcane Enlightenment
The Shamans that I have played have not used Arcane Enlightenment, and have worked out pretty well, so I don't think it's mandatory myself.
6) You are very MAD.... your physical stats wont be great
My Ironfang Invasion Human Flame Spirit Shaman started with Str 18, Dex 12, Con 14, Int 10, Wis 14, Cha 8 (20 Point Buy). It's a reach build using a longspear, and has worked out really well so far.
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It's a bit of an exaggeration the weakness of the list. It is a shallow list to be sure but it is still broad. At most levels, including 1 it has things the cleric list does not have like control (entangle), and blasting (burning hands). It has ok buffing overland flight, divine power and barkskin being standout self buffs. Key removal spells restoration, and summoning. A smattering of save or die spells hold person, blindness deafness, stinking cloud. There is also many ways to bring people back to life and planar ally for lot of fun stuff.
The list, as I said, is not deep but there is a wide array of spells.
As for physical stats medium armor, d8 hd, and high Bab cover a lot of what you get from those stats compared to arcane 9th level casters. So fort and Ref are down a point or two compared to an arcane caster, will is much higher, but you get hexes. Seems like a fair trade to me. You can make up for the saves with additional traits one feat. Initiative is the biggest lose from stats. Though casters know how to get +12 easily (improv, familiar, heighten awareness) so it should be fine.
It seems to reasonably balance out to me, but people value different things in builds. I'm usually willing to trade raw power for versatility.
i have decided to go for Arcanist, i like a lot School Savant but atm dunno if i have to go for Foresight, great ability but prepare 1 divination spell per level a day seem so poor choice.
Teleportation very solid or Admixture to make some damage at Demons.
Very hard to build one optimized for the campaign...