Very true, many times they repeatedly end up having certain effects be way more broken than others, legendaries being a major example, instead of them being on par with one another you had fire bracers be a huge dps increase, so it became a no brainer even if you hated that playstyle.
Meanwhile if they were balanced dps wise, people would choose the one based on their own playstyle.
And covenant abilities are worse, because some are single target and others are AoE, so the cool covenant you like might be trash if you are not interested in AoE damage