Well, actually we can reduce the discussion to this:
The reason why you want to use the plated charger is exactly the same reason why other people (e.g. the developers, me,...) don't want you to use it.
You can name this reason whatever you want, the sentence above will stay valid.
And just on a friendly note: don't come up with realism, because this never works in an argument.
Oh an btw., just to mention it: I don't think this game has counters, at least balance is not based on them. So in my opinion it's not good to divide classes into counters if discussing balancing matters. If you don't agree with it feel free to open up a new topic and inform me about it