Just because you don't define something as a trade-off doesn't mean it's not a trade-off according to the English language. This has nothing to do with views and everything to do with a dictionary.

You also conveniently left out the most common situation in progression -- situations that require you to have both maximized DPS and maximized mitigation. And, WAR can't do that nearly as well as either PLD or DRK. That is the reality of why WARs OT -- because of the trade-off they need to make that PLD and DRK can do better.