edit, sry for long post, kept adding

i personally think that’s a bit of an overreach/simplification
is some of it a bit meme, sure, is it useless, absolutely not
Gulgazor is dope if for ranged pew pew Deceiver etc - you’re completely wrong when you say inquis has no acid support; there is a difference between native support, and item support, and inquis has acid item support (even if a bit meme)
Sunherald is dope for Blademaster
Baelgor, Witch Hunter, blade spirit etc
Namadea works on Apostate, Paladin, Vindicator etc
Tenebris lets you convert horn of gandar and whatever
the point is, the Pierce conversion is neither wasted nor useless,
Just because there isn’t always a ton of pierce to convert doesn’t mean it’s bad, it can be flavour conversion or niche/meme
If you start changing so AP comes first you will detract from builds that rely on phys conversion first, while those builds gain basically nothing since the pierce converting builds usually still get basic phys conversion, and the global or direct pierce conversion takes care of the rest
this is an issue of Pasthrough being “mandatory” for ranged meta
and 100% or 0 conversion has 0 impact on that as aegis doesn’t use MH dmg
which would be 0 issue because it can still high convert phys to chaos either direct or globally, just like all current chaos builds do fine
And stuff like Nightblade as chaos is also a thing, which manages to get around with current form of pierce vs phys conversion
Chaos is one of the few that gets easy high conversion because abomnation so base phys dmg is basically rarely an issue, and any pierce->chaos builds that need pierce conversion in some substatial form gets it, without loss
If you start changing AP order it will not benefit anything really, other than demand a full rebalancing on al a lot of base phys dmg weapons
but more importantly you impact builds that rely on phys->X conversion that don’t get a ton of pierce->X conversion, because a bunch of Pierce->X conversion is actually sparse, pierce to acid pierce to cold etc
“TLDR” there is 0 drawback in your listed examples (imo), only an over judgment/underestimation of their use or utility, if that makes sense?
And altering the entire sequence of conversion would not benefit those much either, because they all already get their XY amounts/is set around obtaining (eg Tenebris being base chaos dmg not phys, so there is no loss etc)
*again, the reason chaos is, imo, a poor example is it’s the dmg type that gets about the most/highest phys conversion easiest, because of abom devotion
other builds gets less, thus rely on the phys conversion,
bu if AP swallows that up first, they get less conversion because they dont’ have as easy access to pierce conversion as they do phys
i think perhaps you see Pierce->X conversion, and then look for something to “fit in”,
but because it’s either not widely available(2 pierce masteries) or not immediately apparent(XY pierce skills not there) you deem the pierce conversion on ex Sunherald “not so good”,
but you don’t lose anything from it being there, nor that it has phys->fire conversion coming first.
i’m willing to bet you 20bucks/whatever FoA costs, that chaos conversion will not be an issue for Berzerker in general, nor be an issue for Covenant of Ch’thon
I’m not just basing that on Zantai always granting direct conversion where/when needed, but on the current standard of phys conversion amount available that “all”/most builds get atm,
(just like how most cold/acid/vit/X builds get around 50% global phys conversion etc avg, (2x15% 1h base/prefix or 40%2h, +1-2x10% components, give or take an amulet with 10% conversion too))