Your take to justify the sheer stupidity that the best devil fruits should not be awakened is abysmal. First because doffy said every devilfruit can be awakened and second because awakening is reaching the peak of your devil fruit mastery.
Oda has done nothing to balance things out. That is just your headcanon
Creating a powerful DFS RANKING:
Class: S
Class: A
Class: B
Class: C
Class: D
I'm not justifying anything, I'm just explaining that even without awakening these fruits are more powerful than other awakened fruits, these fruits by default are already: class S (example: Gura gura, Fish-Fish Fruit ,Yami Yami no Mi ), using the hypothetical RANKING I created, the other fruits categorized as rank: A, B,C,D, need to wake up to match these super powerful fruits, or rank up (awakening your fruit), even if the awakened fruit doesn't reach an S class fruit, it will decrease the range (GAP ) between the fruits.
Example to make it clearer: Class C fruit can awaken and reach the level of a Class A fruit, and so on.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not cleaning up the author's mistakes, in my opinion the writing in ONE PIECE really does look like the semen of a sick and crippled sheep, I'm just explaining something simple.
And from my point of view, this is balancing things out, what a user with an awakened Class A DF will do to beat a guy like Kaidou or Whitebeard and even Blackbeard, who are characters that by default have very powerful fruits by default (Class S), even without awakening, are other things like: Haki, skills, and stats etc...
If you want to invalidate my point, go ahead and I created an argument of my own to claim that all DFS are of the same level, as in fact and by basic reading comprehension, we know that one DF is stronger than the other.
Magu Magu > Mera Mera
Gura Gura > Jiki Jiki no Mii.
Fish Fish > Zou Zou no Mi .
There are clearly rankings for DFS.