That's exactly why we have different languages and tools, because they adapt differently to different projects, teams and problems.
But as soon as you get into the silly "tool X is better period" arguments, then all the nuance of choosing the right tool for the job is lost.
The parent poster's point is seemingly to reject "this is simply the better thing" (ie: "small code is better") and instead to focus on "for what we are doing it is the better thing". Why would "basic" profiler use be better than "niche" or "advanced" profiler use if for that context basic would actually have been inferior (for whatever value of basic we choose to go with)?
It seems to me that the reality we're often confronted with is that "better" is contextual, and I would say that "basic" or "smaller" are contextual too.