Castle age genitours seem pretty underwhelming

What would be cool with berbers to see is less of just going camel archers to beat everything and more of using the 2nd unique unit that everyone forgets about, the genitour. Obviously it should only be used to counter archers, not anything else, theyre specifically a counter unit. But it seems quite bad, because it costs 2x the food of elite skirms, and as we all know, food cost is detrimental to a units use in castle age. The reason this is a problem is because it is not made up for at all by any of the other genitour advantages.

Genitours have twice the health of eskirms when you get bloodlines (but you need bloodlines for that, which is an immediate downside), however this means nothing when fighting xbows because they have 3 base pierce armor as opposed to the 4 of eskirms, so they take 2 damage per hit whereas eskirms take 1 damage, therefore they both die in 35 hits, and if you dont get bloodlines the genitours die in only 25 hits instead (worse than eskirms when genitours are supposed to be TANKIER).

The only advantage of genitours is speed, but is this really worth it when youre paying twice the food cost for a unit that individually does nothing more than elite skirms when fighting xbows? Especially since genitours have 1 less range than eskirms?

Genitours also have no bonus vs pikemen and also take anti cavalry and anti cavalryarcher bonus damage, so unlike regular eskirms they take bonus from pikes and opposing berber camel archers. This is even more detrimental to the unit.

When you get the elite genitour upgrade, suddenly they have 4 base pierce armor just like eskirms, however you have to wait for imp for this.

I think its stupid how genitours simply are useless in castle age. Eskirms are just more cost efficient in literally every scenario barring raiding opponents eco.

Personally I think camel archers need slight nerf, like reducing the pierce armor from 1 to 0 so xbows counter them better, and genitours in castle age should have 4 base pierce armor instead of 3. It would be nice to see BOTH of the unique units of the berbers be useful.

/end rant