You're absolutely right.
It isn't fun being forced to sword and board when you have a 1200 dps weapon sitting in stash

You should be able to play whichever way you want. Im def keeping my barb cause I know its a matter of time before they fix him.
For the time being im playing a DH, that's lvl49 in Nightmare act 4. So by the middle of hell he'll be lvl60.