You don't have to be a smartass about it. Sure, it's happened, but is it on a consistent basis? No. I'm happy for you that it's happened though, because that's awesome. Good to see more than just a few can play this job. I've never found it impossible to outparse a puppetmaster in merits, but not being able to get hateless nukes makes it hard for a BLM to deal with. The only disadvantage you have is not being able to choose it's spells. If you could, it'd be broken.
And when I was talking about overestimating things, I was talking in specific about the master's melee side of things.
