That’s exactly what i’ve been saying everytime the astrobiotic debate cames up. It’s healthy for the scene to have a variety of really strong deck going in different direction and Astrobiotic is a key component in that.
It makes the runner deckbuilding difficult and it should be like that for exactly the same reason parasucker recursion and account siphon spamming was healthy for the game last year. Everyone is complaining about but in the end, learning to deal against really strong / overpowered deck is what makes us better at the game.
RP doesn’t have any tier 1 build other than the taxing glacier with Caprice. And even if Manhunt Making News, NEH with DRT or TWIY* grail are somehow a a little bit worse than NEH, it doesn’t means these built aren’t viable. For instance, there’s only One Tier 1 deck in Jinteki and it’s RP Glacier. Every other builds are on the same power level than those NBN archetype i’ve cited (yeah, even the dreaded Killteki PE).