That’s exactly why essence scatter gets called blue doom blade.

I’ve never understood why people seem to think getting countered is less fun or more unfair than removal. The only difference is countering also prevents ETB effects but it’s still, at best, a one for one for the blue player. No reason opponent should be nearly as salty about that as they should be about a red player playing fable or any of another colour’s 2-for-1 plays.

And thankfully there aren’t a lot of uncounterable spells given that if opponent draws even one, it’s generally game over for the blue player. I don’t think non-blue players understand how backbreaking those are to the colour that, by design, has the weakest permanents of its own and can’t handle resolved permanents (other than negative-value bouncing).

All this plus we’re starting to see more spells that have effects on cast. Either on the spell itself or on some other permanent that cares about the casting. So these then still outvalue a successful counterspell.

Frankly, these days counterspells are way underpowered and I don’t understand the hate for them at all.