I think that’s a fair response - but I do think that there’s a weakness in the deck that the ID covers. Non-ice tax is predominantly trash costs, and even in non-asset spam decks that’s very relevant.
(As an interesting exercise if you’ve time, go back and read the Whizzard threads from early last year and before Inject/Street Peddler/Faust. People were already remarking that Whizzard’s ID was bonkers good even if it’s just Jackson - it just didn’t cover the problem at the time, which was setting up a functional rig fast enough to get any accesses to make it worthwhile. Example.)
I think it’s unfair to compare to Noise decks - they get 3 credits a turn from Aesop, 3 Cache, and still can’t afford to interact with most corp assets except via Imp.
The only one I’d consider would be Ed Kim in a very Weyland/Scorch heavy meta, where Plascrete and I’ve Had Worse just wasn’t enough. Whizzard’s ID is a perfect hedge against decks that try to tax you in non-ICE ways (upgrades and assets), even if you’re not expecting running into many of them. The ID patches over one of the very few holes in the deck. That’s hugely important.