Quote Originally Posted by Cybren View Post
you're begging the question again. You're presuming that there's one way of fun (balance) and then justifying it because you think it's more fun. Some peoples fun derives from a holistic approach to a system where there are valid use cases for every ability, which 5E pretty much has. "equally viable" is an overly meaningless metric.
No it isn't. People generally don't want their fighting style to be sub-optimal compared to others, as evidenced on this forum by the numerous threads asking for mechanical help when an archetype seems underwhelming, and far far less asking for help making their archetype weaker.