Drgs can pretend BotD doesn't exist, just like brds that don't like WM.
Not a valid comparison. BotD works just fine UNTIL you get Wheeling Thrust, which adds complexity to the rotation for zero benefit.

BotD isn't the problem here, it's Wheeling Thrust. And once you learn it you can't just "not use it"

You aren't being punished by being forced to pay attention to receive your reward. If the two abilities were still 50/50 and one attack was better than the other, people would complain.

The attacks do the same thing, so people complain.
The attacks do the same thing therefore they have no reason to both exist. It's ability bloat, plain and simple.

Is it a weak reward? A little.. Punishment, though? Hardly.
It's not even a weak reward; that's giving it too much credit. It is *zero* reward at best, and a detriment at worst.

And for someone that has gotten very used to instinctively running to the flank for the next attack right after doing Full/Chaos, and now has to get used to NOT doing that just to fulfill an arbitrary 50/50 RNG requirement that adds nothing to my performance, that's a significant detriment.