It’s decided for you in every functional way. Your argument with semantics is not beneficial to your cause. It’s like presenting a choice between walking through an electric fence or a non-electric fence; you have a choice semantically only.
When you are discussing Night Fae warlocks competing with Venthyr Warlocks, they do. Making the wrong choice makes you functionally unable to compete with other warlocks of your skill and gear level. You are asking people to choose to be weaker, on purpose.
Because you don’t care about how well you perform.
I don’t use icyveins either. It’s already so blatantly obvious which abilities are good and which are bad that there isn’t a reason to even use a third party website.
Are people just not capable of creativity anymore? Who is to say my supposed “suboptimal” choice doesn’t have a trick or two to surprise people with and pull a victory for my team?