Do tanks get the most out of PuGs?

I've been leveling my Restoration Shaman through Northrend, and the closer he gets to the level cap, the more I find myself getting unnerved comparing his group experiences to those of my main, a Druid tank. This past week, for example, I've healed normal 5-mans on my Shaman, then relogged and tanked heroic 5-mans on my Druid (in some cases, the very same content my shammy just did on normal). With very few exceptions, my shammy's had a tough time of it, whereas my main has sailed through her pugs without a care in the world. Initially I chalked this up to having a lot less experience playing a Shaman, but I think it was around the time that my shammy's second Utgarde Keep PuG quit at Ingvar after wiping for 30 minutes* (no joke -- and yes, this was on normal) that I had a small epiphany; maybe the reason I've enjoyed pugs so much is that I've almost always played a character who's largely immune to their faults.

I've written here before about how much I enjoy pugging and how 5-mans are still my favorite part of the game, but that was always written from the perspective of a Druid who usually tanked. Even if you're not sitting on great gear, a competent tank can still compensate for a player's having blundered into a patrol, or a pet on aggressive, or someone else's inexperience with the dungeon; they simply adjust and pull with these potential issues in mind. My Shaman, by contrast, can do very little about these problems except attempt to outheal whatever damage results -- and I've learned that I can't always do this. Healers are at the mercy of everyone else's gear, experience, and latency, and it makes a sad kind of sense that so many of them are adamant about vetting potential groups before getting themselves involved.

Maybe my Shaman's luck with pugs will change at 80 with more experience and better gear, but something tells me that if my shammy and not my Druid had been my main, I would have had a very different, and not entirely welcome, experience with LFG.

*Players kept getting one-shot by Ingvar's Smash and the axe AoE. "Why didn't they move out of it?" you (reasonably) ask. I still do not know.