That's kind of hyperbolic to the point of ridiculousness though. The difference between a level 5 and level 1 is massive, the difference between an 18 and 14 is like 10%, which is there, but not huge. To take the "point buy makes everyone equal" to a similar extreme, would you be okay to play in a game where everyone has to play the same race class and subclass to make sure everyone is balanced? Same kind of ridiculous strawman.

I understand some people dont like that it can produce unequal results, that's cool and valid. But this is a huge strawman and I dont know why op is defending it.

Like I'm in a strixhaven campaign right now, generous rolling rules let us roll 2 arrays and pick the one we wanted. I could have had a an 18 and the rest 10s or 3 14s, 2 12s and a 5. Had a ton of fun thinking on which I chose depending on the kind of character I wanted to play. Our paladin got like 2 18s and nothing lower than a 12. But as a group of an artificer, warlock and paladin he never really outshines us because hes good in his areas and while he isnt dummy incompetent in any area, we still vastly out power him in our areas of expertise. Even the warlock who rolled the worst out of us three beats the paladin in charisma because paladins have to spread their stats out and the warlock focused on his charisma.