I agree!
The Shaman is a surfboard, not a carving board (I've never seen it is a board to carve) but due to the long effective it has a good edge hold to be used on different snows, also on the slope.
I know that its tapered shape isn't ideal for carving like, for example, the longboard (no taper) or others boards as you say.
Swellpaniks are good boards, I liked them a lot, but I consider more qualitative Pogos and Shaman better to ride in hardboots (waist 23,5).
In the Pogo catalog I like very much the longboards (mostly the 170) to ride as an universal FREERIDE board. In the past I had other similar boards, like Dupraz, but I consider Pogo longboards best of all.