The phrasing of these two bits makes me chuckle a bit (taken out of context, I know what you were saying, my mind just made weird associations while reading ^^).
On a more serious note, for sure we're at a point now where if Blessings are as weak and awkward as the current ones on dot com, completely ignoring them and using your strongest team just works. And I foresee that this will only amplify as time goes by and more and more competitors get up to speed on GG and GS.
Eventually, when most top 4 contenders have full sets of maxed out mythic GG pieces and enough light bulbs to have a couple or more teams fully skilled simultaneously, the impact of Blessings should be much smaller than we're used to, except when they are super strong and they buff enough compatible girls to make a team with. We're not quite there yet, though. And of course, by the time we get there, I'm sure Kinkoid will be just about ready to drop the next meta shaker on us anyway. ^^
With a nod to the game review site RPS (who replaced scissors with a shotgun ^^), and trying to be a bit creative slash funny about it, but yeah.
A picture is worth a thousand words, so I went back to the drawing board, literally. ^^
Enjoy! Or don't, I'm too tired to tell if it's a masterpiece or a weird mess, honestly. It's meant to be a clear representation of the weird mess that is the true post-GS "counter bonus scheme", in any case. ^^