I never said str builds were hard. It's undoubtedly the strongest build for the reasons you stated.
The point of the discussion was build coming online and yeah str builds, which most people pick up with intent to use ultras which are heavy alone and require also heavy armor for poise takes forever to get online, the longest of any builds before you can use it without an awkward setup.
Even sorcery is useful right from the get go even if it doesn't become op until late-game. Str builds just take too much stat investment to use their weapons and it's something From has never gotten right in any of their games except Bloodborne where armor and weapons had no weight so you could use something like Kirkhammer right away whereas if that weapon was in DS3 it would probably be like 18 units like Vordts hammer.