I made the switch from Genesis to the Beaver Builder theme nearly 4 years ago and it suits me perfectly. It’s solid, simple and reliable. The value of it is probably lost on most.

Beaver Themer is doing much of the work now for me, but I still would not be without it.

I completely agree with your missing options. Also the more recent buttons options feels half done. The theory is you can globally match your theme buttons with what is in the page builder, but without the padding and icon options you really can’t . I really should have reported that as I suspect I am not the only not using it.

I have the Beaver.Team’s Pro plugin that links the theme and page builder’s colour palette. They have a knack for coming up with things that probably should be in Beaver Builder and they often do later.