I’ll support your intuition just through personal experience.
I don’t care much about the archetypes. And I never ever blend them.
I listen to HOM a lot, but I do so for a collection of very specific skills and traits - wealth manifestation, and sales skills. I don’t care about being HOM, I just treat HOM as a type of True Sell on steroids.
Now I’m listening to ASBR, but, not even for the fame archetype, just for a very specific collection of features - cognition, socializing, confidence, wealth, motivation, and again it’s like a true-sell type of sub for me.
And having one sub that covers everything IS helpful, in my opinion. A lot of people, myself included, comment that a stack sometimes lacks forward momentum without an archetype. Archetype subs have a bit of everything, kind of like Genesis has everything, but Genesis is simply more neutral and balanced in its version of “everything.”
But the subs that have had the most impact for me have always been smaller skill based subs, especially combined with one archetype to tie everything together. Inner circle, PCC, love bomb, EOG, limitless executive, sanguine elixir, DR, revelation of mind/spirit. They’ve all seriously changed my life, and since they’re so specific, they do so much faster for me.