I'm not sure I agree. Softcapping (at least ranged and melee, AoE seems harder) is easy if you have both SoA and pool Maneuvers, and is a huge survivability boost. It's been much more useful to me than would be maybe a 20% damage buff from slotting for that.
Only two Bane powers take the Achilles Heel proc, and if you put it in Surveillance, it'll break your stealth when the proc goes off.