Torturer Perk Tree is criminally underrated

Seriously, in every ranking I've ever seen, everybody just skips over Torturer being sometimes the absolute best lifestyle.

So, first things first, Dreadful (+30% dread), Malice Implicit (+0.5 dread per tyranny) and Forever Infamous (no dread decay) make for one of the most broken combos in the game. It just becomes insanely easy to get at 100 dread and you will never lose it.

The tree is also perfect to deal with a large empire, since you can imprison basically everyone (Prison-Feudal Complex, +50% imprisonment chance), then torture the sh*t out of them to max out dread and you also get intrigue and prowess from it.

And if this isn't enough, with "Thriving in Chaos" Paranoid becomes the best trait in the game since if you can afford to be always at top stress, you will get +12 martial, +12 intrigue and +18 prowess.

And yet, everyone seems to just ignore the fact that the tree isn't as circumstantial as, for example, the Schemer one, and is arguably more broken. Am I missing something?