I always figured it was ok for each color to be OP at one thing because it all works out in the end, like rock paper scissors. Green is stompy, black is necromancer-ish, white is a pita, red is an aggro lil bitch, blue is cock blocky pansy who gets smacked around once you get past all his irritating counters.
I think they balance it really well but they should learn to just... make it fun
They create whatever gameplay they want people to have with each set release. So they release a cat and an oven and you get cat oven. Or a 4 mana enchant that lets you cast anything and twice, you get fires decks all over. So like, have someone think up something better than counters
p.s. Currently there are 12 different counterspells just on the first two pages, and you can have 4 of each. So obviously they are gonna be everywhere.
But blue could be way cooler than that. Fae of Wishes is awesome, like card up your sleeve that is perfect to fuck your opponent. And they have badass stuff like the clock which gets to 12 and draws a whole new 7 and shuffles gy, or the Magic Mirror, or Spark Double to have multiple Legendary Planeswalkers, Cavalier of Gales was awesome too., and my favorite is Kiora Bests the Sea God. I made a deck all about that jank and it was the funnest thing. But it was hard to make it pay off and without the Agent... it's not good enough. So 39 counterspells it is then..... So one dimensional. If I was king of MTG, I would just phase out counterspells and replace it with something funner, like anything. And I'd do the same to mill too. The current black is so boring to me. They got rid of that Liliana Dreadhorde General chick and now we get.... mill.